system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[startrek]Suppose I walk into a holodeck and say "create an interactive Sherlock Holmes simulation about solving the Piltdown Man hoax" or "show me a version of John Fletcher's Valentinian play with the setting changed from Roman to Mayan". Is there a limit to how specific & esoteric you can get?
gpt
Not really a limit, no, beyond the computing power behind the holodeck and its available database of information.

That said, it also can't really be assumed that the holodeck or computer will understand every request or always get things right.  This is, essentially, the difference between typing "Fruit," or "grapes," or "red grapes" or "Vitis vinifera" into a Google Image search and hoping for the result of a picture of red globe grapes.

So you may have to answer follow-up questions on your request, and/or tweak things a little bit.

This is also why there is a large market for holoprograms and holonovels.  In the better novels and programs, all those esoteric details done for you by the author/programmer.