This mod aims to correct many typos, format issues and so on within the books found in Vanilla Daggerfall.
This mod is currently NOWHERE near completion, so a complete fix should not yet be expected.
As of Version 1 this mod fixes:
Spoiler!
Key: Bold = Completely fixed Italics = Only partially fixed
1. Redguards, History and Heroes
2. Of Jephre
3. From the MemoryStone
4. The First Scroll of Baan Dar
5. The Sage
6. The Asylum Ball
7. A History of Daggerfall
8. The Real Barenziah, Part II
9. The Real Barenziah, Part IV
10. The Real Barenziah, Part VIII
11. On Lycanthropy
If there are issues you notice in the currently fixed books, please do report them and point me towards where it is.
If a book that isn't edited has large issues that make it unreadable, report the names and I'll prioritize them.
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:18 pm
by Eksevis
Version 1 Patch Notes:
Redguards, History and Heroes
All unnecessary double spacing should be removed
All instances of "sword singer(s)" has been corrected to "sword-singers"
2253,a -> 2253, a
the song of the blade -> "the song of the blade" (This change was added in UESP. It is subject to change)
monsters than infested the land -> monsters that then infested the land
BOOK OF CIRCLES -> Book of Circles
"the father of Mountains" -> "the Father of Mountains"
his strategies his tactics -> his strategies, his tactics
Hira and his Army -> Hira and his army
Of Jephre
Removed all unnecessary double spacing
of the seasons and He -> of the seasons and he
the streams the tinkling ethereal tune -> that taught the stream their ethereal tune
high elves -> High Elves
dark elves -> Dark Elves
Elven Bards -> elven bards
From The MemoryStone
The name should now be displayed as "From the Memory Stone"
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:32 pm
by Interkarma
This is awesome to see happening so quickly. I respect when people just roll up their sleeves and start fixing stuff.
I'll link this thread from the Released Mods page. The only change I might suggest is to use .zip format instead of .rar. Many Windows users might not have the ability to extract .rar, whereas .zip is built-in to the OS and most commonly available.
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:55 pm
by AlexanderSig
Good stuff!
Looks like UESP highlights some of the spelling errors in the game with [sic]. You could use that to help you find errors if you're not using that already.
Go back far enough and spelling and grammar and punctuation either were not standardized or non-existent.
There. Genuine medieval-style text, aside from being typed on a computer. Heh.
p.s. Message redundant where unhelpful; message possibly helpful where non-redundant.
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 2:09 pm
by Eksevis
I actually considered leaving the errors in Redguards, History and Heroes, as it's supposed to be a transcript, but I decided otherwise. The mod was mostly made for those books that have text that go off the screen anyway.
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 8:31 pm
by Narf the Mouse
Eksevis wrote:I actually considered leaving the errors in Redguards, History and Heroes, as it's supposed to be a transcript, but I decided otherwise. The mod was mostly made for those books that have text that go off the screen anyway.
Fair enough. It's *you're mod.
* This was accidental, but I left it in for irony.
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 3:36 pm
by Eksevis
Okay. Version 2 is coming up today in about 7 hours! I need some last minute help; what are some books that have text that go off the screen making it unreadable?
The aim of the upcoming version is to make all books readable, but understandably this may not be done until the next version, at least.
If Verison 3 is done before next week (making all of the books readable), I will post it early. Once again, all you have to do is point me towards books that aren't possible to be fully read.
I already know of and have fixed;
The Sage
The Real Barenziah, Part II
The Real Barenziah, Part IV
On Lycanthropy
Version Plans:
Version 1 - Introduction to mod
Version 2 - Getting more serious, fixing a handful of books to be readable
Version 3 - Filling out the books that hadn't yet been fixed.
Version 4+ - Formatting the books to look better and have less spelling errors.
Version 5+ - Making all book names appear correctly in the inventory (thought I had figured it out, but I'm really not sure how to do it)
Re: Unofficial Book Patch
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 2:06 am
by Eksevis
Version 2 Patch Notes:
The First Scroll of Baan Dar
Made the paragraph spacing more consistent to the other books
ShadowMaster -> Shadowmaster
MasterMind -> Mastermind
megood -> me good
The Sage
Is now fully readable
From The Memory Stone
Unnecessary double spaces were removed
Fixed a few instances of unnecessary capitalization (some have been kept as it expressed the passion of the author)
Paragraph indentation is now more consistent to the other books
The entire beginning is now correctly centered
The Asylum Ball
Is now fully readable
Paragraph indentation is now more consistent to the other books
A History of Daggerfall
Removed unnecessary empty page
The Real Barenziah, Part II
Is now fully readable
A few words have been moved to not be so close to the edge
The Real Barenziah, Part IV
A few words have been moved to not be so close to the edge
removed unnecessary empty page
The Real Barenziah, Part VIII
The title is now correctly displayed as The Real Barenziah, Part VIII, however the item name isn't fixed