Talk:Memory Lapse

Alphanumeric Symbols and Unicode
Part of the reason Roman numerals are lacking for in-game 'text descriptions'. Is simply because the font SSG uses probably cannot support mathematical or extended symbols. The same situation likely occurs with the programming IDE they use, it's likely very limited and cannot recognise symbols. It possibly cannot even render basic Em rules or En rules  by the looks of things. That would explain the inadequate hyphen-minus usage.

PurpleSerpent, personally I didn't notice a great deal of difference between the renderings of: Latin letters IV (  and  ) compared to Roman Numeral Four Ⅳ. In either case they might look different as could: ⅠⅤ ( and  ) compared to "Ⅳ" because they are not the exact same. I am presuming you aren't using some unconventional overriding of the font in your User Agent?

Really Roman numerals should be marked up correctly, using techniques such as MathML.

The page: Memory Lapse, clearly implies there are Roman numerals in the quest etched into stone slabs. Rather than the substitute roman type letters loosely looking like Roman numerals. Those in-game graphics floor tiles either are (or are meant to be simulating) Roman Numerals, or they aren't.

In 2018, I didn't write: "Crushing Details can be found behind a secret door in aisle IV of the north wing."

However, if they aren't supposed to be mimicking Roman in-game, then quite simply, the Arabic numeral 4 or the word "four" should be used on the page. Rather than the two letters: "IV" to prevent any confusion.

In fact I believe the game dialogue refers to the labelled bookcase locations as being on "rows" and uses English written words, e.g. "[...] found in row [two] ...". Therefore, I am proposing the word "four" should be used in place for this quest rather than the two confusing letters "IV". :-)

&rArr; Dywypi (Contribs • Message • Email ) 06:25, November 15, 2022 (EST)


 * Perhaps we are using different site skins, because I'm on the default setting for my current skin and all three of those options look completely different. Anyway, I believe that the wiki generally uses the standard Latin letters for these things (partially because those characters wouldn't work in a page title.) In this case, since the quest uses both "IV" and "Row Four" to refer to the location in question, I'd say there's grounds to change the location to "Row Four" if you'd prefer. &rArr; PurpleSerpent (Contribs • Message • Email ) 07:47, November 15, 2022 (EST)