Creating a bullet point in my .user file

[Gumbytie]

I know if I work in the Hero Lab Editor, if I cut and paste, yes the bullet point shows up correctly when viewing (say the Deities from Fantasy Splatbook, etc.)

But I tend to write up my stuff by hand in Notepad++ and even if I make something in Editor first then copy into Notepadd++ HeroLab does not "read" the bullet point correctly.

I have tried each of the following to no avail:

• ("& # 8 2 2 6 ;" spaced out just to see the code)
•
•

What little documentation covering this I could find seemed to suggest the last of those three should have worked at least.

Any suggestions?

 

[Duggan]

Hmm... I'm not by my copy of the program to try this, but what does the resulting ".user" file look like after working in the Editor?

 

[zarlor]

I think it's either:

[PLAIN]
[list]

[*]list item 1

[*]list item 2

[/list]

[/PLAIN]

or it might be using curly-braces instead of brackets, so:

{list}
{*}list item 1
{*}list item 2
{/list}

Largely I think HL uses bbcode for formatting, so this may help: https://forums.wolflair.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#list

 

[Gumbytie]

<thing 
id="facGOCrafting" 
name="God of Crafting" 
description="God of creation, craft, and art, the Smith is popular among craftsmen, but especially venerated by the dwarves.\n\n{b}• Aspect:{/b} Creation, fire, artifice.\n\n{b}• Powers:{/b} {i}Armor, barrier, blast, boost/lower trait, burst, damage field, darksight, detect/conceal arcana, disguise, dispel, elemental manipulation, environmental protection, healing, invisibility, light/obscure, pummel, smite, summon ally, telekinesis, warrior’s gift{/i}.\n\n{b}• Duties:{/b} Work hard, do the best job you can, celebrate creative accomplishments.\n\n{b}• Sins:{/b} (Minor) cutting corners in your work, allowing a work of beauty to be destroyed; (Major) laziness, claiming credit for someone else’s achievements; (Mortal) intentionally destroying a work of beauty." 
compset="Faction" 
uniqueness="unique">
<usesource source="Fantasy"/>
</thing>

I tried Zarlor's suggestion but to no avail.

As to what it looks like inside HeroLab:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5s6hv8hl78bbcib/bullet-points.png?dl=0

Worse case is I just write up this little section in a separate file just using the Editor, but would really like to solve this one

should amend this, using: • or & # 8 2 2 6 ; (spaced out just to show) or • means the file won't even load.

 

[Duggan]

Have you tried just pasting the bullet in? I pasted "• Bullet\n• Bullet" into the "description" field for an item in the user file and it displays just fine with the bullets.

Before that, I pasted the bullet into the Editor, then looked at the .user file it generated to verify that that's how they did it.

 

[zarlor]

I want to say I saw something about doing bullets in the documentation someplace as well. Maybe on the Wiki (http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com)? But a quick search isn't showing anything for me, but my search-fu might not be up to snoff there. Maybe it was in the help section stuff in the editor, but I can't check that right now to see for sure. I normally use the editor to do things and I'm pretty sure all I ever did with bulleted items were there simply by doing a copy-paste.

If it helps here is were they talk about the formatting codes for things on the Wiki: http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5?title=Encoded_Text