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An easy way to copy passages?? (else:)[feature request]
Hi,
I'm not sure if @klembot is in charge of the program side of things... but I had a question as to whether there was an easy way to copy passages within the story (other than opening up passage, copying, starting new passage, pasting), and also a way to copy passages from one story to another.
It doesn't seem to be a feature that is available in Twine 2.0
If that is the case, I would like to request/suggest such a feature, as it can greatly help with the organizing of a story.
For example, I am currently testing a particular game type function within twine that I will probably want to use in a larger story, once I have ironed out all the wrinkles, and having a simple copy and paste at the passage level (ie. select a bunch of passages, copy, then go to another story, and paste... and presto, those pasagges are now all imported into the new story), would be great.
Obviously, this is just an idea which may not be workable.
Just a thought
I'm not sure if @klembot is in charge of the program side of things... but I had a question as to whether there was an easy way to copy passages within the story (other than opening up passage, copying, starting new passage, pasting), and also a way to copy passages from one story to another.
It doesn't seem to be a feature that is available in Twine 2.0
If that is the case, I would like to request/suggest such a feature, as it can greatly help with the organizing of a story.
For example, I am currently testing a particular game type function within twine that I will probably want to use in a larger story, once I have ironed out all the wrinkles, and having a simple copy and paste at the passage level (ie. select a bunch of passages, copy, then go to another story, and paste... and presto, those pasagges are now all imported into the new story), would be great.
Obviously, this is just an idea which may not be workable.
Just a thought
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This method also does not work in Twine 2
Regardless, you can do this in a kinda roundabout way. Take a published HTML file, and copy the passages from the html output into a published HTML file of the new story. Then import the combined file, and everything in that old story will be in the new story too.
This sounds like the thing I would really appreciate. Hopefully it will be included in a later version of Twine 2.
Excellent! I never would have thought of that. Thank you!!
I tried it, and it seems it is not a straight forward thing as the passages all appeared on top of the others. (I'll have a look later as there is probably something I can tweak when copying the data from one HTML onto the other, that will help the new passages appear at the bottom of the others in the twine interface.
Just create a "base" story with the required passages, and every time you want to start a new story, import the story, then rename it.
Okay, thanks @klembot. I've added it as an enhancement request. (I hope I did it correctly).