ladysharlyne
subscriber, 3432 posts
Member before Oct 2005
Creative Writing ROCKS!!
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 11:37 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?Okay many would say senility has set in but its just Fibro forgetfulness for this 68 yr old. I used to know how to do this but for the life of me can't figure it out! Please Help teach this old dog an even older trick!
SWORD FIGHT ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4
Sir Lancelot ?
Sir Gawaine ?
The Green Knight ?
for example. Please show me HOW to do this so I can remember or put it in one of my games to go back to.
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Larson Gates
member, 25 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 11:43 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?| ladysharlyne: | Okay many would say senility has set in but its just Fibro forgetfulness for this 68 yr old. I used to know how to do this but for the life of me can't figure it out! Please Help teach this old dog an even older trick!
SWORD FIGHT ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4
Sir Lancelot ?
Sir Gawaine ?
The Green Knight ?
for example. Please show me HOW to do this so I can remember or put it in one of my games to go back to. |
| SWORD FIGHT | ROUND 1 | ROUND 2 | ROUND 3 | ROUND 4 |
|---|
| Sir Lancelot | ? | ? | ? | ? | | Sir Gawaine | ? | ? | ? | ? | | The Green Knight | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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Ski-Bird
subscriber, 210 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 11:46 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?I'm partial to Easy Tables.
LIke so:
|! Sword Fight|! Round One|! Round Two|! Round Three
|! Sir Lancelot|||
|! Sir Gawaine|||
|! The Green Knight|||
^^ This code results in ...
| Sword Fight | Round One | Round Two | Round Three |
|---|
| Sir Lancelot | | | |
|---|
| Sir Gawaine | | | |
|---|
| The Green Knight | | | |
|---|
You could also use the [tr], [th], and [td] tags for the same effect.
<table><tr><th>Sword Fight</th><th>Round One</th><th>Round Two</th><th>Round Three</th></tr><tr><th>Sir Lancelot</th><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><th>Sir Gawaine</th><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><th>The Green Knight</th><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></table>
^^ This code results in ...
| Sword Fight | Round One | Round Two | Round Three |
|---|
| Sir Lancelot | | | |
|---|
| Sir Gawaine | | | |
|---|
| The Green Knight | | | |
|---|
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ladysharlyne
subscriber, 3433 posts
Member before Oct 2005
Creative Writing ROCKS!!
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 11:52 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?Thank you both for such a quick response it is very helpful. Especially thank you to Ski-Bird for showing me the how to do it. Both of you helped me loads!
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ladysharlyne
subscriber, 3434 posts
Member before Oct 2005
Creative Writing ROCKS!!
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 12:47 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?I figured out how to get colour and spacing in the blocks. Ski-Bird this is Great! I have a lot of contests in my freeform games and do simple dice rolls. This was so simple ... once I found the | on my keyboard. LOL haven't used that key for many years. I will now!
| SWORD FIGHT | ROUND 1 | ROUND 2 | ROUND 3 | ROUND 4 | ROUND 5 | ROUND 6 | Subtotals | FINAL TOTALS |
|---|
| KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Dragonet | 15 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Tristan | 7 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Gawaine | 3 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Gareth | 19 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Green Knight | 20 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| QUEEN MORGANA'S KNIGHTS | | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Lancelot | 4 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Rollant | 9 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Lucan | 4 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Isake | 6 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Charles | 15 | | | | | | | |
|---|
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Ski-Bird
subscriber, 211 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 12:58 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?There are some shortcuts for text centering too.
The ! means that a box is greyed out and the text is centered. But the <, >, and ^ keys can justify the text as well (left, right, and center justified respectively)
Like so:
|First column|Second Column|Third Column
|< 1|^ 2|> 3
| First column | Second Column | Third Column | | 1 | 2 | 3 |
If you know you want the same text justificatio for the entire column of the easy table, you can do a top row that sets the rule.
Like so:
|-<|-^|->
|First Column|Second Column| Third Column
|1|2|3
|A|B|C
| First Column | Second Column | Third Column | | 1 | 2 | 3 | | A | B | C |
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Ski-Bird
subscriber, 212 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 13:03 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?This thread was very helpful when I was getting my head wrapped around how to use easy tables.
https://r.rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=9590&ti=2046&date=1661097790
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Imladir
member, 64 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 13:05 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?You can also use |= to grey out the box without centering the text.
An in-depth tutorial about most (everything?) you need to know about tables is here: https://r.rpol.net/display.cgi?gi=9590&ti=1942
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Ski-Bird
subscriber, 213 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 13:07 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?And here is setting a row to be a certain width ...
| SWORD FIGHT | ROUND 1 | ROUND 2 | ROUND 3 | ROUND 4 | ROUND 5 | ROUND 6 | Subtotals | FINAL TOTALS |
|---|
| KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS |
|---|
| Sir Dragonet | 15 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Tristan | 7 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Gawaine | 3 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Gareth | 19 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Green Knight | 20 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| QUEEN MORGANA'S KNIGHTS |
|---|
| Sir Lancelot | 4 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Rollant | 9 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Lucan | 4 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Isake | 6 | | | | | | | |
|---|
| Sir Charles | 15 | | | | | | | |
|---|
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Tileira
member, 533 posts
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 17:52 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?This looks nicely solved.
I'll just add the simplest way to do it, for anyone coding shy, is to use <tt> ... </tt>. It preserves the exact spacing you see when drafting a post, so you can use spaces for spacing.
<tt>
SWORD FIGHT ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 ROUND 4 ROUND 5 ROUND 6 Subtotals FINAL TOTALS
KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS
Sir Dragonet 15 . . . . . .. ...
Sir Tristan 7 . . . . . .. ...
Sir Gawaine 3 . . . . . .. ...
Sir Gareth 19 . . . . . .. ...
Green Knight 20 . . . . . .. ...
</tt>
This message was last edited by the user at 17:54, Sat 03 Sept 2022.
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evileeyore
member, 720 posts
GURPS GM and Player
Joined 20150819
Sat 3 Sep 2022
at 21:21 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?| Tileira: | | I'll just add the simplest way to do it, for anyone coding shy, is to use <tt> ... </tt>. It preserves the exact spacing you see when drafting a post, so you can use spaces for spacing. |
The only issue there is that the tables will adjust for mobile devices, "tt" and "pre" do not ("pre" is for "preformatted" and it preserves tabbing, which can work better than spacing sometimes).
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Mahatatain
member, 250 posts
Tue 6 Sep 2022
at 13:25 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?Thanks for the explanations in this thread. Very useful indeed.
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Sightless314
member, 43 posts
If there's a will
There's a way
Thu 8 Sep 2022
at 13:47 | Teaching an old Dog New Tricks ~ Make a table in post?
As far as I know, the <tt> doesn't work with screen-readers for some reason. This would only be an issue if you have a player that uses one. To be more specific, the columns don't seem to come through when listening, so you have to guess. if its only two or three, its easy to figure out what goes with what, if you were creating a table map, then things could get confusing really quickly. Again, this is only important for blind and VI players that use a screen-reader. The other methods for formatting tables work just fine, and I have, honestly, no idea why this one doesn't. This is just for everyones' FYI, nothing more, thanks.
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