Time  Nick        Message
12:28 lissobone   This channel needs some extra fun.
12:29 lissobone   That's why I proudly announce that I like mathematics because I can utilize it in my mods.
12:29 lissobone   Well, and I like modding because I can use math.
12:46 MTDiscord   <Scout> using math in mods? Illegal! :O
12:54 definitelya It really seems like #mnetest-dev is where everything happens, and this channel is only active when something off-topic enough happens there. :)
12:58 lissobone   Well, I've got a question.
12:58 lissobone   I'll first check the lua api to make sure I won't look like a dumbass.
12:59 lissobone   Well, I am a dumbass, but at least I didn't fully make myself look that way.
13:45 MTDiscord   <Scout> Only a slight dumbass :p
13:54 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> Hi all
13:58 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> A quick question: in builtin/settingtypes.txt there is this line: > Comments and (Readable name) are handled by gettext. Where can I find gettext? I look in the lua_api.txt but there is no such a fonction. I could find in a file something like: lua if (core.gettext)  but I don't know where to find that.
13:59 MTDiscord   <ROllerozxa> gettext is a translation library
13:59 MTDiscord   <ROllerozxa> minetest uses it for the engine, but lua mods use another custom translation library which is more basic
14:00 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> Where can I find its definition?
14:01 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> Wait, it's a library not just a function/method?
14:03 MTDiscord   <ROllerozxa> for gettext, there's core.gettext, fgettext and fgettext_ne inside of the main menu lua environment
14:05 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> Thx
16:39 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> I'm really confused about "hard return" and "soft return". Are they encoded differently? Are two consecutive "new line" characters always interpreted as "hard return" whereas one new line character represents a soft line character?
16:40 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> This is what created this confusion in my head: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/9068
16:42 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> I already knew that paragraph seperators (pressing Enter) are different from line seperator inside the same paragraph (Shift + Enter) but I have never thought about their encoding
16:46 rubenwardy  The difference is purely in how you interpret them
16:46 rubenwardy  So there's no real such thing as hard and soft returns
16:46 rubenwardy  There's only lines delimited by new lines
16:47 rubenwardy  The idea is that it should ignore new lines unless there's a blank new line
16:47 rubenwardy  *unless there's a blank line
16:56 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> I see.
17:01 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> Now, that comment in the settingtypes.txt file says: >Comments and (Readable name) are handled by gettext. so I assumed that gettext needed to be changed, but then I saw your comment on the PR: > I think it would be better to have some Lua code which removes all but double line breaks and I'm assuming that gettext is cpp not Lua. So what I understand is that some Lua code has to be made to pre-process the file before handing it to
17:01 MTDiscord   gettext. Is that right?
17:02 rubenwardy  the code that parses settingtypes.txt needs to be changed
17:03 rubenwardy  this will cause merge conflicts with my settings redesign though
17:17 MTDiscord   <Abdou-31> Ok
22:03 MinetestBot 02[git] 04TurkeyMcMac -> 03minetest/minetest: Implement vector and node conversion in Lua (#12609) 13b38ffde https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/b38ffdec279bcded98e34f5116c8d676aa9f73a7 (152022-10-18T22:01:44Z)
22:03 MinetestBot 02[git] 04TurkeyMcMac -> 03minetest/minetest: Check for falling `float` nodes in liquid transform (#12862) 13dafdb3e https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/dafdb3edb4b65db144d72cd2274a657af671bdd1 (152022-10-18T22:03:05Z)