Raoul, thank you for your considered response. I don’t think there is any real difference in what we are saying: it is just a question of the perspective with which one looks at the issue. I had understood your point when you had explained it the first time, and I understand it even better after your explanation above.
I have been using the AMG script since 2004, that is, for more than eleven years now. My feedback to you is that of an old user’s to a programmer. I am not at all in support of “destroying” the labour of others: in fact I see you as contributing to and improving the work done by others, and that is the spirit in which I have given my feedback.
Logic and common sense are both fairly obvious on one point: the field which carries the plot synopsis should be prefaced with ‘AMG SYNOPSIS’ and the field which carries the review—which can often be empty because All Movie Guide does not review many titles—should be prefaced with ‘AMG REVIEW’. That is logical as well as harmonious.
When the previous programmers built in the options that they did, which you explain so wonderfully well in your comment above, they must have had their reasons for doing so. If as a programmer you wish to follow that lead then that is fine. All that I’m saying is that you’re putting in a lot of work in rebuilding the script, and have an opportunity to improve at least one feature which we are talking about, so why not improve what we have received from the previous programmers: that is the best respect we can show to them, the best compliment we can give them, that we are grateful for their work, that we are returning to their work again and again in our efforts to make it even better. That is the spirit which drives newer versions of every script—the manner in which Antoine continues to work on the IMDb script till today is an example to behold—and every software, and that actually may be one of your seminal contributions to the script.
I’ll be happy with whatever script you finally offer me. You have already revised this script twice, before the present revision, and the second time you had done the revision after an explicit request from me. So I will remain obliged to you for both your time and your work. You are the programmer and it is your prerogative to work the way you wish to; I’m just a user giving you feedback which I hope may be useful to you in doing the revision. I’m in support of any decision that you take, and as an eleven year old user of the script I will continue to provide you with my feedback, and hope to continue to remain as thankful to you in the future for your work as I have in the past
All my best wishes for a speedy conclusion to a perfect AMG script, once again
... I told you that i have no time and you give me more work ... Moreover your request is tricky because those characteristics are not the same a movie to another. What am i supposed to retrieve ? I can try to catch all this block but it's not going to be good looking.
I've no idea of programming so I really can't say how difficult this would be to implement, but all we need to do is to import the text in the characteristics box in a formatted way. For example, the 'Description' field for the movie "Zombieland" ( http://www.allmovie.com/movie/zombieland-v468313 ) should look as follows after importing the text in the 'Characteristics' box:
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