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Class key.Paragraph

java.lang.Object
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public abstract class Paragraph
extends Atom

The base class for most things which are output. Examples are the simple 'TextParagraph', which is used for many room descriptions, and which can be set to be formatted in various ways, such as justification (left, right and center), as well as indenting (left, right, firstlineLeft, firstlineRight)

Another example is 'LineParagraph', which is just a simple line across the screen.

'MultiParagraph' is basically a paragraph which consists of others, ordered sequentially. So you might have a line, then some text, then a trailing line, and wish to treat it all as a single paragraph.

'TableParagraph' is, well, a table. It is set up with rows and columns, and you can add new rows and columns, and the columns will be set to the correct width and laid out as best we can. Spacing between columns has a pre-set minimum, but no maximum, if the columns are small enough. You may specify what the table is to do if there isn't enough space in any particular column - whether you wish to truncate the entry, use more than one row for a single entry, or start removing the columns displayed based on their priority. A table may also have a heading, and it will generally use a footer if its paged.

A 'ListParagraph' is similar to HTML <ul> tags. It lays the text elements out in a nice pretty bulletin, (as best it can), for lists of points or elements.

The priciple use of paragraphs will be in descriptions. There will be extensions to the editor to support editting a paragraph, as opposed to just a string (as it does now). These extensions will support users being able to center text in their rooms, put lines across, embedded colours (obviously), and embedded images.

Another feature that paragraphs will require is the ability to output in html format, so that anything that is stored on the program in paragraph format can be easily converted to HTML.

Paragraph()

Paragraph

 public Paragraph()

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