NML:Town names

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To define randomly generated town names, the town_names block should be used. Such blocks can be used in two ways, as generator of (partial) town names for another block, or as top-level town names block, a starting point of town names in the grf file. You must have at least one starting point, but you can have more than one.

The general syntax of a town names block is:

town_names[(<name>)] {
	[styles : <string>]
	<part> <part> ....
}

The optional <name> defines the name of the block. Such a name is used to refer to this block from another town names block. For top-level town names blocks, it is often left out. Note that in that case, you must also leave out the parentheses.

The optional <string> defines how the town names are called in the menu. It may only be defined in a top-names block. To make the name available in all languages, it is probably a good idea to at least define a menu name for the generic language.