Description Formating

[HippyCraig]

Is there a document that describes any special formatting you can put around text when making your own spells? Bold text, etc. Also can you make tables in the description of say a spell? If so how do you do that?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

This is documented on the LW wiki HERE.

 

[HippyCraig]

Cool thanks, I really dont see anything specific for making a table, have you made one and do you have an example you can provide?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Cool thanks, I really dont see anything specific for making a table, have you made one and do you have an example you can provide?

Sorry missed that part. From what I know you can't really do "tables". Or if you can LW never did it for Pathfinder with the thousands of books they entered.

Usually I break up the text in a different way as best as I can to make it read nice.

 

[Aaron]

No tables, confirmed, sadly.

 

[HippyCraig]

Ok I guess I can use a standard font that mono spaced and format that way

 

[HippyCraig]

So I cant get the new font to take effect {font Courier} is this the right syntex? Also if I want to revert back to teh default how do I do that?

 

[HippyCraig]

Ok I figured it out and this looks really nice in HL

{b}Animated Object Statistics{/b}{font Courier New}
Size HP AC Attack Str Dex
{back FFFFFF}Tiny 20 18 +8 to hit, 1d4 + 4 damage 4 18{back 010101}
Small 25 16 +6 to hit, 1d8 + 2 damage 6 14
{back FFFFFF}Medium 40 13 +5 to hit, 2d6 + 1 damage 10 12{back 010101}
Large 50 10 +6 to hit, 2d10 + 2 damage 14 10
{back FFFFFF}Huge 80 10 +8 to hit, 2d12 + 4 damage 18 6{revert}{back 010101}

Let me know what you think its a simple table but makes it much more readable

 

[Mathias]

Before publishing this beyond your own computer, in the Develop menu, make sure "Warn about platform-specific fonts" is turned on for at least a short test. A font that works on one computer may not be available in every OS.

For general publication, you need to consider whether it will work on many versions of windows, windows running in various emulators, many versions of Mac, and iOS. The emulators are where I've seen the most problems with fonts in the past - that's why we use bitmaps for the boxes and circles on character sheets, not characters from various wingdings font sets.

 

[HippyCraig]

Thanks for the advice I think Courier New is o e that has been on Windows for over 10 years now at the very least. Its the defacto mono-spaced font. Not sure about MAC if some else can chime in on that

 

[Mathias]

Looks like "Lucida Console" was the one I needed to use when setting up the hit point, magic point and sanity grids on the character sheet for Call of Cthulhu.

 

[azuravian]

According to Apple, Courier New has been included in all versions of OSX. That covers you for close to 15 years. It also looks like it's been inlcuded on all versions of iOS. Not sure how the emulator issue might effect things though.