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I7: Indefinite articles on objects defined in tables

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Gravel

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Nov 12, 2009, 5:13:17 PM11/12/09
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I've been having a lot of trouble dealing with the indefinite articles
of things I defined in tables.

Example:

A tree is a kind of thing.
The trees in Testroom are defined by the Table of Tree Types.

Table of Tree Types
tree
apple tree
pear tree

Trees are improper-named.
The indefinite article of a tree is "a".
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This produces text "You can see apple tree and pear tree here."
Even trying to fiddle with the printing a paragraph about rules has
failed me. [A list of trees] and [the list of trees] doesn't change
anything either.

Am I missing something? I have found that writing each thing out by
hand works, but this gets confusing quickly. If I do need to write
them out by hand, is there an easy way to assign properties to the
things using a table? (So if I wanted to associate height or fruit
with a certain tree, I could do that without writing out individual
sentences.) It's not so much the typing as the information
organization - for some things, it's just more convenient to have
everything laid out in a nice table, especially as things get added.

Roger

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Nov 12, 2009, 7:12:51 PM11/12/09
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Add the article in the table:

[code]
Testroom is a room.

A tree is a kind of thing. The trees in Testroom are defined by the
Table of Tree Types.

Table of Tree Types
tree

an apple tree
a pear tree
[/code]

produces:

[transcript]
Testroom
You can see an apple tree and a pear tree here.

>
[/transcript]

Gravel

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Nov 13, 2009, 9:36:33 AM11/13/09
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Aha! Many thanks.

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