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#1 deactivated-333333333

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Posted 14 August 2012 - 09:03 AM

I want to make a personal library of fanfictions by Brohoovians, and I don't want to have to copy it word by word.
Is there a limit to the amount of text you can copy into books, and if so, how much? Is there a special technique?

Thank you for your time.

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Posted 14 August 2012 - 03:35 PM

If you want to manually copy/paste text into a book, you can only do it 256 characters at a time. If you copied more than that and you try to paste it in, nothing will happen.

However, we have a plugin that can convert raw text into Minecraft book format which is how I managed to hand out copies of My Little Dashie and the full text of Romeo & Juliet. Put the text you want book-ified on pastebin.com, ask a free admin very nicely and they will be able to turn it into a book for you.

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 01:48 AM

If you want to manually copy/paste text into a book, you can only do it 256 characters at a time. If you copied more than that and you try to paste it in, nothing will happen.

However, we have a plugin that can convert raw text into Minecraft book format which is how I managed to hand out copies of My Little Dashie and the full text of Romeo & Juliet. Put the text you want book-ified on pastebin.com, ask a free admin very nicely and they will be able to turn it into a book for you.


That sounds purrrrfect for doing logs in fallout.

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 06:29 AM

We did some tests with this on the test server, and it can crash the server, so please no more absurdly huge books. The plugin let you do up to 256 pages too, I think its mostly that that caused problems. The normal 50 page limit is probably ok, at least for now. Its really terrible how it works on the back end, its not meant for big amounts of text.

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 06:59 AM

could you please tell me this plugin? filling my library is going painfully slow, and this look handy if used carefully.

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 07:02 AM

ExtraExtraInk.
Ratty has removed it from the server for now due to aforementioned crashing. It'll come back if he can find a way to limit the number of pages in a book.

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 07:17 AM

Thanks a lot, everyone :D

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 07:22 AM

So, if the plugin is removed, do books with more than 50 pages get removed too? I have a 53 page book and I'm worried...

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 07:26 AM

thank you

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 07:41 AM

really sorry to bother you with this, but i can't seem to locate it in either google or the bukkit plugin list.

lend me a hand if you can?

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 01:10 PM

really sorry to bother you with this, but i can't seem to locate it in either google or the bukkit plugin list.

lend me a hand if you can?


I'm GUESSING its this: http://forums.bukkit...es-1-3-1.92644/

Edited by Harlequinqueen, 15 August 2012 - 01:10 PM.


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Posted 15 August 2012 - 05:16 PM

Plugin is back, new books are now limited to 50 pages.

So, if the plugin is removed, do books with more than 50 pages get removed too? I have a 53 page book and I'm worried...

Nah, they're safe.

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 07:01 PM

The plugin we have is by ha3, he doesn't always publish his plugins.
That pastebin one should work fine though.



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