Default Messages and Custom Library Messages have both been bumped to version 3. No changes are needed to the author’s source for Default Messages, but Custom Library Messages is now stricter in its say-phrases, in order to more closely emulate Emily Short’s Plurality.
Default Messages, version 3:
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In response to Aaron Reed’s upcoming extension Neutral Library Messages, the Default Messages extension now looks through the author’s table of messages “in reverse order”. Normally the direction makes no difference, but if the author and Aaron’s extension both override it, it will now choose the one in the game source, rather than the one in Aaron’s extension (which presumably came first).
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A new example was added due to a snafu with the “I only understood you as far as” error. Normally when the author changes that message, Inform always tacks on the relevant bit of the player’s command. But if the author wants that bit in the middle of the sentence, like “I only understood take yourself, but not the rest,” the example shows how to do so. (Via a rule, using [library message verb].)
Custom Library Messages, also version 3:
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The same example was added to CLM as well. I considered fixing the snafu in Inform itself, but I didn’t want DM and CLM to differ in how they worked. And to fix it in Inform from the minimalist Default Messages was… not all that minimalist.
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A bug was fixed to do with the have* irregular verb, specifically when it was used in second person present tense, among other things.
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It is now possible to include Plurality (version 9) by Emily Short while under the restriction “use no deprecated features”. Plurality has deprecated phrases that begin with “Cap”, meaning capitalize, instead using actual capitalization like [It-them] and [it-them].
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Following Plurality’s lead, CLM no longer provides “Cap” phrases itself, instead using actual capitalization in their names. Apologies to any authors who may need to massage their code as a result.
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Similarly, the word “of” is required in phrases like “[it-them of the noun]”, just like Plurality does.
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The documentation was expanded. Specifically, the part that said, “see the documentation for Default Messages” has been replaced with the relevant part of said documentation. The small section about the activity was slightly expanded, and a new section was added at the very end with some of the say phrases CLM exposes.
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A section or two was appearing in the author’s Index when it should not have. This is fixed.
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One phrase, ['s-'ve], was used only in the example Poster Shopping. This phrase has been removed from both extension and example to conserve space. It re-appears in the documentation’s new section on say phrases as an example of creating new ones, and can be added back into an author’s project with a click of the adjacent copy-paste icon.
