GameTeX, which has been using macros for gender-neutral LARP writing for years (and presumably Template before that), uses they/them/their/theirs.
Useful to know -- I was wondering. This line of thought originally started the last time we had a "tools for writing LARPs" panel (a couple of years ago), and one of the things folks particularly liked about GameTeX was its support for gender substitution. Thanks!
I expect you'll eventually want to add various not-really-pronoun things as well, so people can replace words like "wife" and "sister" and "aunt" and so on with appropriate macros.
Yep, but I'm not sure yet how much I'm going to bother with in the base App -- you can always do this ad-hoc by saying, eg, [[gendered(""aunt"", ""uncle"")]]. (That's the general mechanism I was referring to.) So while we'll likely add *some* of those for convenience, I'll probably stop worrying about it when we get to diminishing returns...
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Date: 2016-01-12 11:13 pm (UTC)Useful to know -- I was wondering. This line of thought originally started the last time we had a "tools for writing LARPs" panel (a couple of years ago), and one of the things folks particularly liked about GameTeX was its support for gender substitution. Thanks!
I expect you'll eventually want to add various not-really-pronoun things as well, so people can replace words like "wife" and "sister" and "aunt" and so on with appropriate macros.
Yep, but I'm not sure yet how much I'm going to bother with in the base App -- you can always do this ad-hoc by saying, eg,
[[gendered(""aunt"", ""uncle"")]]. (That's the general mechanism I was referring to.) So while we'll likely add *some* of those for convenience, I'll probably stop worrying about it when we get to diminishing returns...