Abilities -- official formatting?

[nick_coffin]

Is there a place that the official format for describing abilities is documented?

I'm writing an app to parse text like the below, and need to know how lenient or strict it needs to be:

Statistics: Obscure 10 (Vision; Defensive, Limited, +20%; Extended, Dark Vision, +20%; Runecasting, −30%; Variable, Area, +5%) [33].

I've seen variation in official sources, but want to know if there is a canonical format. For example I might see the ability above written as:

Statistics: Obscure Vision 10 (Defensive, Limited, +20%; Extended, Dark Vision, +20%; Runecasting, −30%; Variable, Area, +5%) [33].

Are both correct? Or only one of them? I don't want to know the answer just for this specific example, but would like to know if there is a formal description of the format.

[Anaraxes]

See the GURPS 4e Formatting Guide.

http://www.sjgames.com/general/guide...SJGformats.doc

You might also be interested in SJG's style guidelines.

http://www.sjgames.com/general/guide...ors/style.html

[Celjabba]

Afaik, the official answer are in this document:
Formatting Guides for GURPS Fourth Edition (Word document)

found there : http://www.sjgames.com/general/guidelines/authors/

But as you said, there are variations.

Edit : and I was too slow :)