Text Types

The Front Page

The front page has the form

\frontpage{Title}%
	{path/to/image.jpg}%
	{Subtext}

Boxtex

Sometimes you want to introduce an example of what to read out to players:

At the centre of the room sits a corpse, clutching a longsword by the tip.

You can get this in Latex with the boxtext environment:

\begin{boxtext}

At the centre of the room sits a corpse, clutching a longsword by the tip.

\end{boxtext}

Speech Text

If your example phrasing is all about someone speaking, try using speech text:

\begin{speechtext}

Hear ye, hear ye!

\end{speechtext}

This would produce a box in italics:

Hear ye, hear ye!

Examples

To make italicised examples of stories, or input blocks of history, you can use the exampletext environment:

\begin{exampletext}

Arnor, intent on bashing through the knight's heavy armour, bludgeons him withe heavy end of his sword.

\end{exampletext}

This environment does not show up in the non-verbose versions (see the repo overview page).

Locations

Encounters are often tied to locations, which have maps.

To make an entry in a map, you can use the \mapentry command, which makes a 'subsubsection' with a number, and requires a label.

To make a map entry called 'The Port Cullis', you would use:

\mapentry{The Port Cullis}{portCullis}

This would then produce the output:

(1) The Port Cullis

Each new map entry increases the number by 1.

You can reference the room, by using \ref{portCullis}, e.g.:

The only escape route is through the Portcullis, (see room \ref{portcullis}).

Placing Maps

Place a map with the \mapPic command:

\mapPic{t}{artist/funky_town}{
    \ref{castleMoat}/20/18,
    \ref{portcullis}/50/8,
}

1. Argument 1 specifies top or bottom.
2. Argument 2 specifies where the image is in the images directory. You don't need the extension - it simply has to be either svg or jpg.
3. Argument 3 is a big list of numbers on the map.
   • The first part is the actual number which appears on the map.
   • It doesn't have to be a number. You can write Bob, and 'Bob' will appear on the map.
   • You can make it a \ref{someRoom} label to automatically get the room number.
   • You could also place the name there by simply doing \nameref{portcullis}, which would show up as 'Portcullis'.
   • Or add a \rotatebox{45}{Bob} command around the label so the label rotates.
4. Argument 3 also has the coordinates in terms of X/Y percentages upon the images, so 'Bob/30/8' places the word 'Bob' 30% along the image, and 80% up (so we're starting from the bottom-left).

Small Maps

The \smolMapPic works the same way, but takes small maps which sit in the middle of a column of text.

Pictures

We have the following four commands:

\pic{artistName/imageName}

\sidepic{artistName/imageName}

\widePic{artistName/imageName}

The image's extension can be either jpg or svg, but the extension itself is not written. All images must be in the images directory.

The \sidepic command can also take an optional argument for how big it is.

\sidepic[3]{artistName/imageName}

This makes an image which is 30% the size of the text column, while writing '7' would make an image 70% the size of the text column.

Each image uses the location as a label, so if you display an image with \pic{Frazetta/killerBlob}, you can display the page number later with \autopageref{Frazetta/killerBlob}`.

The \widePic{} goes at the bottom of the page by default, but you can put it at the top with \widePic[t]{}.