Spelling of spells.

[Travis Maxx]

Hi. I've been haveing trouble with my spell not working in my macros. One of mine is like this.
/party Super Curaga Coming.
/ja "divine seal" <me>
/wait 2
/ma Curaga <me>

I thought this would work, I've had troubles with other the two word spells. I've entered it just as on my Macro screen.
I also have a problem with the Cure II version the.
/ja "devine seal" <me>
This brings up a comand error.
Any help would be a great.

[Michiko]

Hi Travis,

Try


/ja "Divine Seal" <me>
/wait 2
/ma "Curaga" <t> (you can always use <me> also).

That should work >^^<

[Macht]

I would suggest when making the macro's use the Auto-Translate to get the spells/jobs/pet command names. Then just enclose the spells in " ", this seems to work a lot better then typing the name out.

[Feenicks]

Capitalization is important.

[Dux]

Yes. Capitalisation is important. I.E.

/ma "curaga" <t> will not work
/ma "Curaga" <t> will.

[Schozie]

yes, you have to use capitals for the start of the words, exactly how they are in your spell list, and if there is a space (ie the spell is two words) then you must enclose it in speech marks.

[Yuanlung]

The macro engine uses Case Sensitive tokens. Which means you need to type out the spell name exactly as it is. Also the parser requires that you put double quotes around tokens with spaces in them, i.e. names with 2 or more words.

You could use the tab complete for the correct spelling and cases, but you still need the quotes if there are 2 or more words.

Note that there are no auto-completed term for level 2 and up spells, but you can do this:
/ma "(Cure) II"

IMO it's not neccessary to macro job abilities. You can select devine seal prior to using any of your existing healing macros quickly by using the job ability menu (ctrl-J or alt-J). This would avoid cluttering your macro bar, while making your options more dynamic.

And I wouldn't make macro for specifically curing me, or any other person. Just do a general /ma Cure, and use F1~F6 to target the party member in need (F1 being yourself), then activate the macro to cure said person.

Alternatively, /ma Cure <stpc> is not bad either, since you can use the menu up and down to select aliance members as well as party members, while keeping your target on the monster. This is more or a support healer set up though. I use this one myself as BLM/WHM.

[Travis Maxx]

My Thanks

Thanks a lot for the help with my spelling problems. It was a missing Capital on the second word that was messing up my Macros.
Thanks again