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COMMENT-BASED COMMANDS
While heading styles provide some useful automation possibilities, the use of Comments in the .docx file
provide much more powerful and detailed options.
FIGURE 303
Note the Comment inserted into the text in Figure 303 . You’ll see that it has two lines. The first is simply
“Black”, which tells TriCaster to select the inp ut named “Black” on its Program row.
F UZZY L OGIC
Interestingly, the very same thing would occur if the command entered in the Comment had instead said
“Show black”, “Put black on program”, “Send Black to Program”, or “Output black”. Live Story uses “fuzzy
logic” to try to find the best match to your entry.
Note: Extraneous text is typically ignored so, for example, you could instead write “Put black on program while
I have lunch” and still be successful (assuming your lunch was satisfact
ory).
We mentioned earlier that you can move the mouse pointer over blue text in the script pane to see a tooltip
showing how Live
Story interprets your comment. It’s helpful to know that Live Story determines the
probability that the interpretation is correct. If the wording of a Comment entry is ambiguous, and could be
interpreted differently, the text color in the script pane is red rather than blue.
Hint: If a comment has multiple lines in it, Live Story adds an asterisk to any ambiguous lines in the tooltip. The
entry “Output black” would trigger this behavior, even though it is correctly interpreted, with the result that
black is shown on output.
L IVE S TORY C REATOR VS. M ACROS
Let’s pause at this point to consider how Live Story commands differ from the somewhat similar shortcuts
used by macros.
Like Live Story commands, a macro shortcut is entered on a single line, and may support arguments, or
parameters. Macro shortcuts, however, require you to use very specific syntax. By contrast, though, Live
Story commands are entered using ‘natural language’ – the way you might normally speak or write. A macro
shortcut will generally fail with an error if your syntax isn’t perfect, while, as mentioned previously, Live
Story uses fuzzy logic to try to find t he best match for your command, and only fails ‘reluctantly’.