Custom BBCodes for the new forum

[Reploid Productions]

I don't know if this has been addressed or not, but perhaps an image BBCode that allows you set the dimensions of the image?

Unfortunately, the Image tag isn't one I can get at from the admin panel; and from what I can tell, BBCode isn't too good with multiple variable tags, such as the height/width of an image... But I'll poke around and see if I can BS together an alternative like I did for the Blocktext tag

[[violet]]

People should just size their images properly. Otherwise we get embedded pics that look tiny but are huge downloads.

[Reploid Productions]

People should just size their images properly. Otherwise we get embedded pics that look tiny but are huge downloads.

You know, I wonder if that would work as a loophole or if the forum's image size limiter would be able to read that the image is actually over the limit and not allow it.

But there ya go folks, one of the bosses says no-go on it

[Stoklomolvi]

I was thinking about factbooks here, and factbooks on a wiki, and I decided that the primary difference was the lack of anchor points. On a wikipedia page, I could go to, say, "Russia#Politics," but here, it needs to belong in a new post. Thus is my suggestion.

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[ANAME=#{TEXT}]{TEXT}[/ANAME]
<a name=#TEXT>TEXT</a>
[AHREF=#{TEXT}]{TEXT}[/ANAME]
<a href=#TEXT>TEXT</a>

On an unrelated note, could fonts be added if there was a tacit agreement as to what fonts could or could not be used? Say, the font "Calibri" is allowed while "AUTOREALM glyph2429 etc" is not?

[Reploid Productions]

Font require [violet] to do some finangling with the backend, so I can't really help there.

However I'll poke at that anchor tag idea when I'm not quite so horribly sleep deprived (probably tomorrow or Thursday =p)

[[violet]]

Fonts are not supplied by web sites; there's no finagling I can do there.

[Pythagosaurus]

I was thinking about factbooks here, and factbooks on a wiki, and I decided that the primary difference was the lack of anchor points. On a wikipedia page, I could go to, say, "Russia#Politics," but here, it needs to belong in a new post. Thus is my suggestion.

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[ANAME=#{TEXT}]{TEXT}[/ANAME]
<a name=#TEXT>TEXT</a>


On an unrelated note, could fonts be added if there was a tacit agreement as to what fonts could or could not be used? Say, the font "Calibri" is allowed while "AUTOREALM glyph2429 etc" is not?

Now implemented as:

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[anchor={IDENTIFIER}]{TEXT}[/anchor]

We will not give you direct access to the href, as you could circumvent javascript prevention.

[Erastide]

Now implemented as:

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[anchor={IDENTIFIER}]{TEXT}[/anchor]

We will not give you direct access to the href, as you could circumvent javascript prevention.

So how it really works is...
You put [anchor= ][/anchor] in front of what you want to get to, and fill in the blank after anchor= with some text.

Then to link to it, you put viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55#sometext as your url.

That took me a long while to figure out >_>

[Pythagosaurus]

So how it really works is...
You put [anchor= ][/anchor] in front of what you want to get to, and fill in the blank after anchor= with some text.

Then to link to it, you put viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55#sometext as your url.

That took me a long while to figure out >_>

You can put it around what you want to get to, it just has a small side effect when you link to it (actually, it doesn't matter if you link to it).

[Stoklomolvi]

I thought BBCodes couldn't change java unless the privilege was enabled...that's how it worked when I adminned forums, but hey, hail the admins! Thank you for this addition.

[The Tofu Islands]

Would it be possible (and not too much trouble) to alias [colour] to [color] for those of use east of the pond? I instinctively type the former, which causes minor problems. It's not really necessary, but it would be nice...

[Uiri]

Would it be possible (and not too much trouble) to alias [colour] to [color] for those of use east of the pond? I instinctively type the former, which causes minor problems. It's not really necessary, but it would be nice...

And those of us east of the pond and north of the border who type colour get no representation? I think colour is more widespread ...

[Stash Kroh]

Would it be possible (and not too much trouble) to alias [colour] to [color] for those of use east of the pond? I instinctively type the former, which causes minor problems. It's not really necessary, but it would be nice...

And those of us east of the pond and north of the border who type colour get no representation? I think colour is more widespread ...

A tag could be used called [color] with all of the same effects as [colour], except there would be no button for it on the interface.

So when Americans type "[color]" they don't look like idiots -- atleast not because of any formatting issues.

[/Canadian]

[Reploid Productions]

Got nothing on the color/colour thing, but we do have a shiny new highlighter!

[The Emmerian Unions]

Got nothing on the color/colour thing, but we do have a shiny new highlighter!

Nice tool for modly stuff. Huh?

[Reploid Productions]

And after [p=1176497]it was pointed out in the Sig Workshop[/p] as a potentially handy tool, now you can use the [ p ] tag to link directly to a post in the forums with just the post's ID number rather than having to finagle around with the full link and the url tag. Good for link-heavy sigs that need to conserve characters!

[Pythagosaurus]

"p" is kind of a bad name.

[Reploid Productions]

Well you're more than welcome to change it Only reason I went with it was apparently that's what the old code on Jolt used for the post tag!

[Charlotte Ryberg]

FYI, "p" is actually a phpBB switch when finding the post id (e.g. example.com/forum.php?&p=123). I would personally prefer the following syntax for user interface improvements:

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[post="1234"]topic post[/post]

[Pythagosaurus]

"post" it is!

[Mikertaz Kein]

Just wondering, would it be possible to include [align] tags for the WFE? I really hate the look when all of the text is squished to the left.

[Mikertaz Kein]

So, would it be possible?

[Reploid Productions]

I can't tweak up stuff for the game-side codes, but I can poke the purple dino and see if it might be doable

[Pythagosaurus]

It is possible, and it's not going to happen.

[The Republic of Lanos]

Why can't it happen?