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Could somebody point me towards somewhere which describes the markup language used in the forums on this site. I am familiar with HTML, pod, wiki and everything2 markups, and I am curious to know what is supported.

The only markup I am aware of so far on RHP is for the smileys and bold/italic/underscore.

Also, how do you get a left or right square bracket, if these symbols are reserved for marking up?

I also have some suggestions for facilities that would be useful in markups.

- Bullet points

- Numbered list, especially for marking up chess moves

- HTML links: you supply a URL and a piece of text to appear

- FEN markup. You supply a board position in FEN, and it renders it for you as a mini chessboard. This would be extremely handy for the puzzles forum.

Russ/Chris: I may be able to offer some dev time to this, and I am UK based (London).

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Originally posted by IvorW
FEN markup. You supply a board position in FEN, and it renders it for you as a mini chessboard.
Great idea!

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Originally posted by IvorW
Could somebody point me towards somewhere which describes the markup language used in the forums on this site. I am familiar with HTML, pod, wiki and everything2 markups, and I am curious to know what is supported.

The only markup I am aware of so far on RHP is for the smileys and bold/italic/underscore.

Also, how do you get a left or right square bracke ...[text shortened]... forum.

Russ/Chris: I may be able to offer some dev time to this, and I am UK based (London).
Hoiw do you write in bold/italics and underscore, in the forums ?

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Originally posted by trekkie
Hoiw do you write in bold/italics and underscore, in the forums ?
you put a <b> at the begining and </b> at the end for bold and <i> and </i> fot italic, I didnt know about under score but it would be <u> and </u>

-Adam

Substuit the < and > with [ and ] or it wont work, I'm going to try under score now to see if it works
underscore --- it didnt work

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Originally posted by UncleAdam
you put a <b> at the begining and </b> at the end for bold and <i> and </i> fot italic, I didnt know about under score but it would be <u> and </u>

-Adam

Substuit the < and > with [ and ] or it wont work, I'm going to try under score now to see if it works
underscore --- it didnt work
I admit, I didn't try underscore, I just assumed it was there 😉. Most markup systems I have dealt with provide the same mechanism for all three attributes using B, I and U to signify which.

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IvorW,

Thanks for your post. Your idea of markup for FENs is a very good one - and will be quite simple to implement - all our mini-boad views render from FENs anyway. This will make it in soon.

No underscores, sorry - the great unwritten rules of the web say : underscores == link. So I have always thought underscores on web pages were a little silly.

-Russ

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Oh yeah, as for your dev. time, drop me a mail.

-Russ

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