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• Your first table doesn't have a name. IPP will run the first named table it finds, so it just runs WhatKind and stops. Your calculation goes a little overboard with the notation. Are you calculating the skill tier times the sum of people searching …

  in Need help with Prompts Comment by OldeMusicke April 2021
• I found a way to count spaces after all. For the case in hand, I can assume that "!" never appears in text. If I couldn't find a useful substitute, I'd be out of luck. table: eachcharexample [ Nec ro man cer >> replace / /!/>> eachchar…

  in eachchar bug? Comment by OldeMusicke November 2020
• Yes. If you want the URL to look right in the output, you'd need to write it something like this: http:/\/www.nbos.com If you leave the "//" intact, the rest of the line becomes a comment. Making it "/\/" gets it to display correctly. De…

  in Can I put website links in generators? Comment by OldeMusicke May 2020
• You don't need your vartest tables. In the Friend or Thing tables, add a silent variable assignment to every entry. For example, in the Friend table: A surviving priest eager to make converts[thefriend==the priest] An avidly curious archaeologist[…

  in One table result producing two different sub results Comment by OldeMusicke November 2019
• I haven't played DragonQuest in years, but if there's interest, I have a pile of ipt files I could share. We used DQ 3rd edition for the most part. Examples include: * generating creatures based on their stats in the Monsters chapter, including wea…

  in DragonQuest (SPI) orc generator Comment by OldeMusicke August 2019
• WISHLIST: Let lookup tables look up 0 and negative numbers. Table: Example {n=-1} gets [#{n} Look]& \n{n=0} gets [#{n} Look]& \n{n=1} gets [#{n} Look]& \n{n=2} gets [#{n} Look]& \n{n=456} gets [#{n} Look] Table: Look Type:loo…

  in Issues and wishlist Comment by OldeMusicke August 2019
• ISSUE: Parameters passed to a table don't preserve case. They're always converted to lower case. Take a look at the last example in the help for Table Parameters. It doesn't show the output, but the apparent intent is to list the names as written. U…

  in Issues and wishlist Comment by OldeMusicke August 2019
• I've found no way around it within IPP, but if you have Excel, paste the table entries into Excel. You can use the text import wizard to break the lines apart at the colon. You can use the LEFT function to truncate the lookup strings to 10 character…

  in Dictionary key: char limit? Comment by OldeMusicke August 2019
• Ha, long time ago now, but after a few months I stopped checking for responses. In any case, the Proper filter (or Upper or Lower) helps only if I'm trying to force the capitalization in that manner. What I was looking for was a way to preserve the …

  in Preserving case in table parameters Comment by OldeMusicke August 2019