Duck, Duck, Burg (nyx)

[Søren Krarup Olesen]

RICH + DAVID:

> David Gerstein said:
> >         In D 99156, my Pegleg Pete birthday story "History Re-Petes Itself,"
> > the two pigs seen *are* Patricia and Peggy - no mistake. ("Nyx" is Inducks
> > terminology that may disappear from the story listing later... you needn't
> > pay attention to it.)
> 
> Ahhh. O.K., but does that mean Patricia's name will move into a proper
> place of being indexed along with the other appearing characters, since
> as of now she is relegated to the segregated "nyx" footnote which makes 
> it seem as if she's being removed rather than included.  Perhaps one of
> the Master indexers knows?  And the Name of the story should also be there.

"nyx" was Brix' way of saying "not yet xapped", and it was introduced
because we (at that time) didn't want all sorts of one-time characters
to appear in the xapp field. I believe this has changed now, so in fact
all nyx characters should go directly to the xapp field.

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