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Does bad spelling in briefings annoy you

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Don't care
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Weyrman
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About mission briefing editing

Post by Weyrman »

I am currently playing a great mission that is spoiled for me by all the spelling mistakes in the briefings. I find it spoils the professionalism of the mission, no matter how good it is. Yes, I know I'm a spelling nazi, but it REALLY BUGS me!
I have a copy of dle-xp and hamm97, but where do I find the briefings in a mission file? I would like to fix them for my own satisfaction.
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Post by Diedel »

Briefings are stored in .txb files. Check "show all files" in dle-xp's mission manager to see them. You will need a briefing editor though to edit the .txb files.

Bad spelling/grammar/expression in briefings make my toe nails cringe.
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Post by Aus-RED-5 »

DTX2 can extract the .txb file/s from the HOG file. Edit with the appropriate program. Then use DTX2 to save/ overwrite the .txb file/s to the HOG file.

EDIT:
Or you can do what Diedel said! :wink:

EDIT #2:
Never mind... :roll:
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Post by TechPro »

Bad spelling in the briefings ... is ... well, really bad form... made worse because it's made public.

... and really takes away from the author's credibility.
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Post by Dynamite »

Bad grammar as well as spelling drives me INSANE!!! It really takes away from the seriousness of the mission that the author is trying to create.
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Post by D3Hack »

Yes. Really spoils the professionality (if there is such a word :P) of the mission, as well as the seriousness.
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Post by Sirius »

There is professionalism, and it means the same thing.

But I agree. If the spelling is bad, it taints the whole thing; if the levels are also mediocre, I'm not going to play it.
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