Text formating on Sings and Billboards

[[DAVE] stumdoes]

Is there a bigger list of hidden formatting commands available? I found out that some HTML tags will work. For instance <BR> will add a linebreak which is handy :)

Anyone have any more tips?

NOTE: The <br> tag seems to work only on every other line or so.. and needs to be put without spaces. "<br>chitin" for instance. Depends on billboard width!

This is how i sorted a list that describes our coloring of storage cabinets on a billboard:
<br>Green = Wood
<br>Blue = Stone
<br>Red = Fibre
<br>Yellow = Thatch
<br>Purple = Flint
<br>White = Hide
<br>Black = Chitin

[Ten24-Khale K'itha]

Oh, that's very helpful, thanks. Though it does also seem to add a <BR> when it's not supposed to, at times.
I like to keep recipes up on the wall.
I entered: "Combine<br>3 Oil and 5 Hide<br>to create<br>3 Gasoline"
It displays like:

Combine
3 Oil and 5 Hide
To
Create
3 Gasoline

I do wonder how you managed to get it to work with the <br> every other line, since there's no way to actually type the carriage returns you demonstrate in your post.

Edit: Oh wow, finally got my first one to work. It seems to work differently not only on every other line, but based on the length of the line.
I had to use:
Storage <br>Wood - Forest Thatch - Yellow <br>Fiber - Green Flint - Orange <br>Hides - Brown

The spaces after "Forest" didn't work after "Green" I had to use one space in that location.

It's because the sign automatically wraps around at a certain length, but does not account for the <br> when wrapping. Bah.

The following:
Chitin / Keratin - Tan <br>Metal -
Silver Pearls / Oil / Crystal -
Black <br>Weapons / Gear - Red
Taming - Purple <br>Building -
Blue

(I cut off the lines to demonstrate where it's wrapping)

Displays like:
Chitin / Keratin - Tan
Metal -
Silver Pearls / Oil / Crystal -
Black
Weapons / Gear - Red
Taming - Purple
Building -
Blue

What they need to do is remove the autowrap when <br> is being used on the sign.

[[DAVE] stumdoes]

Yes exactly! That magic autowrap is well wierd. Also ive found that you can make it look great! Then you scoot of somewhere for a little while and when the billboard has fetched the text from the server database, its all screwed again :S

[Ten24-Khale K'itha]

Yes, I'm noticing the same. I don't know why it formats differently when loaded from the server vs when immediately entered. I hope they take a look at this, at some point down the road, though.

[[DAVE] stumdoes]

Or give us a few hints how we can format it until then... Tags to use etc, if any, until they do. We are usually good at finding workarounds when stuff ain't working 100% :)

[Santas Helper]

It will space the words to fill the whole sign length if there is a space for it to break with. It is annoying, but that seems to be what it is doing. Workaround possibility: fill the rest of the characters at end of desired text with spaces followed by a . or something. Or don't use spaces between words you don't want separated, use a - or _ instead? Ugly, but so are weirdly placed words... this bothers me so much. I'll have to play around with some html tags if they are truly working, thanks.

[Ten24-Khale K'itha]

I've actually tried that, unfortunately, Santas. It will act even more odd if you do that, as if it considers the contiguous spaces to be a word that it has to wrap around.

It also acts differently if you state Wood-Green vs Wood=Green

[Smug]

Originally posted by DAVE stumdoes:

Is there a bigger list of hidden formatting commands available? I found out that some HTML tags will work. For instance <BR> will add a linebreak which is handy :)

Anyone have any more tips?

NOTE: The <BR> tag seems to work only on every other line or so.. its wierd

This is how i sorted a list that describes our coloring of storage cabinets on a billboard:
Green = Wood <br>
Blue = Stone
Red = Fibre <br>
Yellow = Thatch
Purple = Flint <br>
White = Hide
Black = Chitin

When I do this is still shows the break tags

[«• XerøØne¹ •»]

Originally posted by Setzaroth:

Originally posted by DAVE stumdoes:

Is there a bigger list of hidden formatting commands available? I found out that some HTML tags will work. For instance <BR> will add a linebreak which is handy :)

Anyone have any more tips?

NOTE: The <BR> tag seems to work only on every other line or so.. its wierd

This is how i sorted a list that describes our coloring of storage cabinets on a billboard:
Green = Wood <br>
Blue = Stone
Red = Fibre <br>
Yellow = Thatch
Purple = Flint <br>
White = Hide
Black = Chitin

When I do this is still shows the break tags

Make sure you use lowercase and no spaces, I had the same issues <br>

[AlteredPerception]

so, late to the game, but it works well if the text is short, due width limits and the <br> has to be attached to the beginning of the next line, with a space separating it from the previous line.

1. Metal <br>2. Cem. Paste <br>3. Obsidian <br>4. Thatch

works for every line.