NML:Town names

2013-04-24T07:58:17Z

GunChleoc: Added an example.

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To define randomly generated town names, the <tt>town_names</tt> 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 <code style="color:darkgreen"><name></code> 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 <code style="color:darkgreen"><string></code> 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.

== Example ==

In this example, town names are randomly constructed from two parts. Note that the top-level block is on the bottom; this is necessary so it can reference the other two blocks. Have a look at the [[NML:Town_names_parts]] section for more info on the syntax used in this example.

town_names(one) {
{
text("Avon", 31),
text("Black", 10),
...
}
}

town_names(two) {
{
text(" Bridge", 1),
text("ton", 1),
...
}
}

town_names {
styles : string(STR_STYLES);
{
town_names(one,3)
}
{
town_names(two,1)
}
}

This will generate:

Avon Bridge
Avonton
Black Bridge
Blackton

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