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Adding Tips to Choices

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May already have been discussed, but a couple of searches did not find anything.

I'm a big fan of providing the player with as much information as possible, in order to give them the best possible basis for making their decisions. As an eample, one could have a tooltip pop up with additional information, when one mouses over a choice.

E.g.,

`* Agree to help Lord Cardigan {tip: +2 to your Noble faction reputation}`

Would show a choice "Agree to help Lord Cardigan" and a tooltip "+2 to your Noble faction reputation" if the player moused over the choice.

Any thoughts on what would be a good way to add this sort of thing to Ink? I'm not thinking of the practical implementation (I use my own, jInk), but I'm thinking that there has probably been some thought on this at some point during your work, and I'd like to add this to jInk's syntax in a way which is minimally problematic wrt future Ink expansions/development.

One might also consider this something that could be useful for other purposes (e.g., free-form text), but my primary concern right now is handling this for choices.

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