Hello -
I believe EasyTutu will soon incoporate organized and titled journal entries, which means ours should be titled and placed in the correct sections for Tutu, yes.
Yes, it will. It will also delete quest entries out of the Quests section once quests are completed.
On a related note, I feel like I should probably mention exactly what I am doing, in case it impacts any of the dialog work UB is doing (apologies in advance for this being a boring post). There are several different kinds of DLG edits I am having to make in order to accomplish the journal stuff. First, game text updates. I am using STRING_SET to update any journal strrefs that have missing titles, bad grammar, etc. Second, I am adding EraseJournalEntry lines in dialog transitions that mark the end of a quest, in order to get rid of the entries in the Quests section.
The most annoying task is the prevention of journal entries related to quests that have already been completed. In the past, because journal entries didn't get erased, I didn't have to worry about inappropriate entries, because the BG2 engine will only allow any one strref to be added to the journal a single time. When you start erasing entries, it is possible to, say, talk to a FAI commoner in chapter 3, and get an unsolved quest entry for the Nashkel mines. To deal with this, I am doing two things. The most commonly used tactic by far is adding a condition to the related dialog state to prevent it. So, if previously the condition was:
IF ~RandomNum(12,7)~ THEN ...
...now it is
IF ~RandomNum(12,7)
GlobalLT("Chapter","GLOBAL",3)~ THEN ...
However, there are times when this tactic is not appropriate, as it will take away a needed dialog option. In these situations, I don't touch the dialog condition, but I add a transition that omits the journal entry if it is no longer appropriate.
The final thing I am doing is addressing any dialog stupidity I find along the way. For example, in Kivan's dialog, if he reveals he is after Tazok and you call him a hate monger and tell him to get lost, you get a journal entry. But if you say "hey, great, let's go kill the bastard," you do not. This is stupid, IMO -- the entry belongs in your journal only if you take on Kivan and agree to the idea of hunting Tazok. So I changed the journal entry to happen if you accept him into the party.
I am continuously updating the list of dialogs I touch on the
EasyTutu change log page. If you think we might need it, I am happy to do a private beta of the new version when it is finished in order to allow for UB compatibility testing.
That's it. Still awake?