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[Proxima]

You missed FLEA.

COCKROACH
FLEE
SWIM

[WillLem]

Attached a new Koan formatting tool with full UI, very similar to namida's:



The BBCode formatting works nicely but might need tightening up a bit, we'll see how it goes. It also only allows koans of up to 35 characters in length. In most cases, that should be fine. Anything longer than that can be manually added afterwards, if necessary.

Has The Buddha Nature
FLY   
NO     
NOT   
ON     
TO     


Lacks The Buddha Nature
AKOANHASTHEBUDDAHNATUREIFANDONLYIF    FLEE                NOKT                PEAS         
AKOANHASTHEBUDDAHNATUREIFF            HONO                NOTK                SWIM         
AKOANHASTHEBUDDHANATURE               HONOMORELEMMINGS    NT                  TON         
BLACKKOAN                             KKNOT               OHNO                WHITEKOAN   
BOW                                   KNOT                OHNOMORELEMMINGS                 
COCKROACH                             N                   ONOMATOPOEIA                     
FLEA                                  NKOT                OT                               

[Silken Healer]

Can you make it so it's not a tab intended table (doesn't display well on mobile) and the new koans are red?

[Proxima]

FLING
MOON
WAYS

[WillLem]

Can you make it so it's not a tab intended table (doesn't display well on mobile) and the new koans are red?

It isn't tab indented. Whitespace characters are added to some koans to make them fit the column. The previous koan tools (Simon's and namida's) do exactly the same thing, I haven't changed the basic output formatting at all. I could probably harness BBCode's more advanced table formatting to produce a table that might look better on mobile. I'll give that a try tomorrow or later in the week.

One thing I definitely need to do which I forgot is to add an asterisk to newly-added koans. Next version will add this, for sure.

Not sure why they're appearing red for you. On both my Dell laptop and Apple phone they appear white on a dark green background.

Has The Buddha Nature
FLY   
NO     
NOT   
ON     
TO     


Lacks The Buddha Nature
AKOANHASTHEBUDDAHNATUREIFANDONLYIF    FLEE                N                   ONOMATOPOEIA   
AKOANHASTHEBUDDAHNATUREIFF           *FLING               NKOT                OT             
AKOANHASTHEBUDDHANATURE               HONO                NOKT                PEAS           
BLACKKOAN                             HONOMORELEMMINGS    NOTK                SWIM           
BOW                                   KKNOT               NT                  TON             
COCKROACH                             KNOT                OHNO               *WAYS           
FLEA                                 *MOON                OHNOMORELEMMINGS    WHITEKOAN       

[Proxima]

A koan has the Buddha-nature if it's a word contained in the title of a Lemmings level. (Specifically, Amiga/DOS L1; my last guesses were meant to probe whether ONML and other L1 versions were included or not.)

[WillLem]

A koan has the Buddha-nature if it's a word contained in the title of a Lemmings level. (Specifically, Amiga/DOS L1; my last guesses were meant to probe whether ONML and other L1 versions were included or not.)

You are enlightened! Out of interest, how did you get to the answer from what was there? I was beginning to get worried that the rule might be too difficult and that there weren't enough white koans, but... obviously not!

[Proxima]

Well, it was easy to notice that all the white koans were English words, especially after your previous round, and FLY stood out from the others; at first I thought it would be a semantic rule, but trying other insects or other movement verbs led nowhere; then I was just looking at it and it clicked    It helped, of course, that "If only they could fly" is one of the more memorable levels and level names from L1.

[Silken Healer]

Not sure why they're appearing red for you. On both my Dell laptop and Apple phone they appear white on a dark green background.

No, you misunderstood what I mean. I'm suggesting you make the new ones red as it highlights what ones are newer easier than an asterisk. They don't appear red for me at the moment.

It isn't tab indented. Whitespace characters are added to some koans to make them fit the column. The previous koan tools (Simon's and namida's) do exactly the same thing, I haven't changed the basic output formatting at all. I could probably harness BBCode's more advanced table formatting to produce a table that might look better on mobile. I'll give that a try tomorrow or later in the week.

Oh my mistake. I may have meant a certain thing through my head, and then articulated incorrectly through the English language. What I mean is how the Koan formatter currently shows them not all in one column, this makes them hard to read on mobile.

[Proxima]

Anyway, we should do another round...

White koans:
CITADEL

Black koans:
CASTLE

[Simon]

CTAEL
CATLE
ADEL

-- Simon

[Simon]

The previous koan tools (Simon's and namida's) do exactly the same thing

Don't put spaces after the final koan of a row. They're nonbreakable inside tt tags.

Break the lines of the table earlier. You don't know how wide people's browser windows are. zendofmt linebreaks at 80 characters, which I like, and nobody has complained yet.

If we keep getting overly long koans that kill the table layout, we can start putting them outside the table. zendofmt has nothing for this yet.

-- Simon

[Proxima]

White koans:
CITADEL

Black koans:
ADEL
CASTLE
CATLE
CTAEL

[WillLem]

CENTURY
CIRCLE
CYCLE
GYM
GIGANTIC
GENERATION

[Proxima]

White koans:
CITADEL

Black koans:
ADEL
CASTLE
CATLE
CENTURY
CIRCLE
CYCLE
CTAEL
GENERATION
GIGANTIC
GYM