How to add a space before a table entry

Madmaxneo

I am creating a table I call Common Place Names. They contain names like: East, South, Sunny, and Haven,
There are three or so tables attached to the parent table, the first table picks the order from the next two tables, for example:

[@table2&;#93;
[@table3&;#93;
[@table2&;#93;[@table3&;#93;

.

table2 contains extensions like ville or den, where table3 contains second parts words like Creek or Canyon.


I need a space to appear before table 3 gets inserted, especially on the second entry of"[@table3]";

I know in the third entry in the table above I can just put a space between the lookups for table2 and table3, but I still need a space for the second entry.

Otherwise I get results like:
SunnyvilleCreek
EastCreek

Where i need the space before the table3 entry.

Thanks in advance!

Madmaxneo

Nevermind, I figured it out. I changed the line with only table3 in it to:

[ ] [@table3&;#93;

I am not sure if it is supposed to work that way but it does work.

Another question:
How do I add a table lookup to all the entries to the primary table without entering it on every line?
For example:
In my Common Place Names table the entries are as follows

East[@table1&;#93;
South[@table1&;#93;
Sunny[@table1&;#93;
Haven[@table1&;#93;

How do I change that so I do not have to list the reference to "table1" on every line? Basically I want the "table1" reference to be automatically added to the end of all the entries in the Common Place Names table?

Or should I start another thread with this question?

largando

[ ] [@table3]

Clever! I've never thought to try that. Other ways to force a space are:

\_[@table3&;#93;

(though I think this has proven to be somewhat unreliable)

or...

 [@table3&;#93;

(reliable though somewhat ugly)


Regarding your latest question, I'd create a table called TownPrefix.

table: TownPrefix
East
South
Sunny
Haven

With that, you could generate the town name as just:

She hails from [@TownPrefix&;#93; [@table1&;#93;.

Or, if you have several places in your code to generate town names, you could create a single-entry table:

She hails from [@TownName&;#93;.

table: TownName
[@TownPrefix&;#93; [@table1&;#93;

Hope that helps!

Madmaxneo

largando wrote:

Regarding your latest question, I'd create a table called TownPrefix.

table: TownPrefix
East
South
Sunny
Haven

With that, you could generate the town name as just:

She hails from [@TownPrefix&;#93; [@table1&;#93;.

Or, if you have several places in your code to generate town names, you could create a single-entry table:

She hails from [@TownName&;#93;.

table: TownName
[@TownPrefix&;#93; [@table1&;#93;

Hope that helps!

Thanks, I'll try out your other suggestions if it comes up again.

On your code above, I am not sure how that would work in my current setup.
Here are the first few lines of code from my table:

Table: Common Place Names
East[@table4&;#93;[@table1&;#93;
West[@table4&;#93;[@table1&;#93;
North[@table4&;#93;[@table1&;#93;
South[@table4&;#93;[@table1&;#93;
[@Num&;#93;Bakers[@table1&;#93;
Brook[@table1&;#93;

Would I simply change the table to Common Place Names [@table1]
Or would it be better to create another table like this:

Table: Prime
[@Common Place Names] [@table1&;#93;

Actually that makes perfect sense and am not sure why I didn't think of it before....Thanks for the help!

Edit: to correct the code!