Thread:Jemann/@comment-6042046-20131026051730/@comment-6042046-20131101082945

After I purge it, A bottle of the '68 still fully displays the 356 character success description. I see the complete paragraph: ''Two bruisers bar your way, but grunt appreciatively as you show the label on your bottle. You pass through to the party proper. Few of the partygoers are what they seem. Flashes of fine silk or velvet under the rags; a scent of Eau de Champignon. Isn't that really Lady ——? And the Magistrate? Wine flows, words flow, and you learn many interesting things.''

I used the character counter here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml

Some pages act even odder. The quote in 'What...? Do I understand you correctly?' is 648 characters long, but I can see 448 characters in the article. It's partially truncated: '''...a direct delivery from the Empress. The Idol has long been one of the Consort's breakfast favourites. They simply can't trust the Palace polisher. And I have extensive contacts in the polishing world. Were you aware that the Assyrians used honey to...''

''An underling takes him aside for a brief word. You take the opportunity to slip one of the papers into your sleeve for later investigation. You are permitted to leave without further incident.''

Another example is A donation to Saint Cyriac's Illuminated College. It's 534 characters, but the article page shows 300 characters: ''The Querulous Theologian accepts the candles with a smile, and invites you into the heavily carpeted halls of the College. She offers you fiercely strong coffee. You can hear an argument upstairs. It sounds as if two scriptural revisionists are coming...''

[Head to the Bazaar Sidestreets to continue.]

Finally, there are pages like Tell the Inspector which work completely fine. Its description is 671 characters, but it's cut off properly at 250.

"My last revision on Action was to fix an bug ZDee introduced - if there was a success summary without a success description it wouldn't be printed."

Oh yeah, that's my fault; I see it -- my sincere apologies! :( Got the IF field confused for something else when I was tinkering to move the Summary below the Description. Thanks for correcting that.

Grrr, hold on, I'm going to rollback the Action template to your penultimate revision to see if that helps. Then I'll very carefully move the Summary parameter beneath the Description parameter and touch nothing else. >_>

"I think the problem with extra space in the templates are the ifs that don't pass, leaving an extra line. (Why the problem should be so much worse in Failure I can't fathom.)"

Exactly why we're confused. Plenty of our templates do that but never to such an elongated extreme. It even shares the same relevant code as Success and Rare Success, but those templates don't misbehave. Maybe it could all be rectified with a secondary template like you suggested.