Books Written in EC Are Not Legible in CC
Issue
The CC does not properly wrap text in books when the book was written in the EC. This makes most books written in the EC unable to be read by anyone in the CC, unless the EC user enters manual line breaks when writing it. This can also ruin existing books that were made in the CC if they are edited in the EC.
The reverse is not true, however. A book written in the CC is perfectly legible in the EC.
Written in EC / Viewed in EC
Written in EC / Viewed in CC
Written in CC / Viewed in CC
Written in CC / Viewed in EC
Steps To Reproduce
A book written in the EC should be able to be viewed properly in the CC.
Proposed Solution
Get rid of the new EC book gump, and give them the same gump as the CC. The stylized parchment/book look is much nicer in my opinion, and would eliminate the discrepancy in the size of the edit fields in each client.
The CC does not properly wrap text in books when the book was written in the EC. This makes most books written in the EC unable to be read by anyone in the CC, unless the EC user enters manual line breaks when writing it. This can also ruin existing books that were made in the CC if they are edited in the EC.
The reverse is not true, however. A book written in the CC is perfectly legible in the EC.
Written in EC / Viewed in EC
Written in EC / Viewed in CC
Written in CC / Viewed in CC
Written in CC / Viewed in EC
Steps To Reproduce
- In EC, open a book and type out a long line of text.
- Observe it wrapping correctly in the EC
- Open the book in the CC
- Observe the text does not wrap properly
A book written in the EC should be able to be viewed properly in the CC.
Proposed Solution
Get rid of the new EC book gump, and give them the same gump as the CC. The stylized parchment/book look is much nicer in my opinion, and would eliminate the discrepancy in the size of the edit fields in each client.
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Comments
Better though, would be to properly fix the word wrap and new page properties. Also, something that I enjoy about EC books is that the title can be MUCH longer than CC. Removing the gump entirely would possibly (probably) also lose that. I would rather see a "legacy'' option in settings, like for container art, where we could switch back and forth.
Word wrapping the text in CC would help, but you still run into the issue where the EC has a much bigger edit field than CC users, which can make the pages too long to read.
Maybe they can make the book text a scroll field in the CC gump and fix wrapping, so super long book pages written in the EC can just be scrolled in the CC.
Seems like it's becoming a complex fix for something so simple. I think the EC book gump was poorly thought out when first implemented, or they never thought of cross-client compatibility.
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