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I want to put a journal into WWII Grand Strategy. I have read the article by Havvy and that doesn't help me. I need to do something like the Mommy journal; with all the events recorded on a single page in chronological order like this:

WWI: Overwhelmed Turkish positions at Gallipoli with night attack and paratroopers. <points won>

1939: Ordered British Expeditionary Force to abandon all vehicles and make a break for Dunkirk. Every man safely back on British soil. <points won>

1940: Ordered RAF to abandon bases for safer bases inland; suffered increasingly severe attacks on industry as a result <points lost>

1940: Gave advice on bomb shelters to public, recieved Time Travel information from mysterious colleage. <points won>

like that. (the date is also the chapter title)

You could use the variable tweak (like the parlor room in Haunted.) 

%%VARIABLE%=%NUMBER%Text goes here%%

 I tend to make either/or variables with 0=false/no and 1=true/yes.  So, in my example, we'll say that giving advice on bomb shelters is linked to the BOMB variable, where 0 means you didn't or haven't and 1 means you did.  On the journal page, in the appropriate location, put:

%%BOMB%=%1%1940: Gave advice on bomb shelters to public, recieved Time Travel information from mysterious colleage. <points won>%%

Obviously, if a person doesn't have BOMB=1, there will be a blank space on the page-- I don't remember if Mommy's character sheet has this or not.

this was asked like last week, its still on the first page of the AdvEditor forum listing, thank you october for pointing this out and even still helping lol!

Come on guys, give him a break, all it said was scripting, he couldn't have known the answer to his question was in there.

riley

yeah, but he could have done a search posts, I guess. 

 FWW posts,  I think a person should definitely try to make sure that what they're asking for hasn't already been rejected, but asking for help shouldn't get a person in too much trouble.

"Obviously, if a person doesn't have BOMB=1, there will be a blank space on the page-- I don't remember if Mommy's character sheet has this or not."

Just checked it and it does have that.

riley

Thats awesome!!!

ok...

when you have your:

%%VAR%10%ejsfkjsefkjf%%

%%VAR2%11%ksjfkjdfkjdsfk%%

you guys are putting a space, you need to do this:

%%VAR%10%ejsfkjsefkjf%%%%VAR2%11%ksjfkjdfkjdsfk%%

Notice how they are right after one another, not a single space in between? Now inside the %%text%% area, you need to put paragraph tags, so:

%%VAR%10%This text is shown<br>%%%%VAR2%11%This is the second line<br>%%