Want to comment out section of EBUScore movement file
Is there a safe way of having comments in, say, PSUserMovements.txt?
A hash symbol # at the start of the line seems to work but I don't know how safe this is.
All maintenance of our movement files is done with a text editor, not with the EBUScore Movement editor.
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Sorry - the hash/# character (before "at the start of...") got converted into a BOLD instruction
You can only have the title line in the PSUsermovements.txt but you can describe the movement in the PSUserMoveManual.txt file. This uses the [Mx] reference to correlate to the movement.
Whenever you set a User Movement for your club, you should always fill in the movement description at the same time using the Movement Description tab. Of course, you can manually edit the PSUserMoveManual separately.
Ok, so I should be able to comment out a section with something like
[x1] [24S2] Howell
[x1] 0,2,24,4,6,0
[x1] 1,3,1,1,3,2, 1,4,3,1,4,4, 1,2,5,1,2,6
[x1] 2,4,2,2,4,1, 2,3,4,2,3,3, 4,3,6,4,3,5
Then continue as normal, eg
[20S3] Howell
0,3,20,4,5,0
...
This seems to work OK, the movements before and after show correctly and pick up their correct manual entries.
But so did putting a # at the start of the line
If the purpose of commenting out movements is to stop your TD/scorer from using the movement, I would add 'DO NOT USE' on the first line of the movement.
Fixed OP
The program is not designed to comment out movements manually. It may happen to work putting in say # at the start of lines but it is inadvisable practice. Robins suggestion is best - either delete them from the file or put a warning on the header line with the [ and ] brackets.