I always use dio's wrapchop now.

It removes the need for the 1234567890....thing.

You just type, putting in line breaks for paragraphs, not worrying about word wrap, and the wrapchop will cut it to the right length, and even put in all the "role +" things.


One thing I think would make the official site much better, would be to have their own wrapchop for notes/roles/descs.

(I too, have had times where I didn't roll a character because I couldn't use the dio's wrapchop because dio's was down)

Shouldn't be TOOO hard for a website novice to put that sort of wrapchop on the official site. Heck, you could even ask dio if you could lift theirs 100%.

Heck, if I had the code for the wrapchop, I could probably work up a tiny downloadable exe that would do the same thing, maybe host it on officials, and let people download it and wrapchop on their own computers.

(I could do it without the code for the wrapchop, but it would take minimally more work, and I'm lazy and overworked as it is. I'm sure someone else out there in the cf community would do it faster and better than I anyway.)


So, what about it, cfers. Any of you willing to step up and make a tiny little wrapchop executable and donate it to the official website in the interest of helping the imms have an easier time reading roles?

In my mind, this would bring about more role reading (if they were all actually in readable format without mental gymnastics required to comprehend some of the roles I've seen on pbf) and more fun interactions between imms and characters.

For the record, I don't disagree and would like to add a role/desc format tool to the official site. However, I'm a bit more than a website novice...and when I really sat down to see how hard it would be to code it proved more than a short project. I don't currently have a lot of time to sit down and try to reinvent the wheel with, so if it's not an hour or two project - it's toast on the to do list. That said, if anyone would like to share the source code or at least some code that just needs to be tweaked for this type of thing to make it a shorter project for me...I'm all ears. I'd also pay a shiny PBF or five if it incorporated a spell checker.

Here is a basic wrap chop clone in PHP:

Demo: http://dev.mudbytes.net/chop.php
Source: http://dev.mudbytes.net/chop.txt

It has VERY basic spell checking that depends on PHPs pspell and GNU aspell libs being installed. If they aren't, it won't try to spell check.

It probably has bugs, but it should provide a decent starting point.