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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [Inform] indef_mode and attribute 'proper'
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OKB -- not okblacke <brenbarn@aol.comRemove> wrote:
>      If this is just to be used for the name of a person, you could try using
>the articles property with "the", "The", and "a" set repectively to "Mr." "Mr."
>and "Joe", then give your character a short_name of "Schmo" and NOT give him
>the proper attribute.  This would result in "Mr. Schmo" being printed in
>definite contexts and "Joe Schmo" in indefinite contexts.

Yay! I actually failed to mention that the character
has a title and I'll even keep the title in the indef case,
so actually I can just set the articles to "Mr." "Mr." "Mr."
Works great for this case. I'd still like a better solution
for the general problem, but this is fine for this game.

SeanB
