On a system I ran a PbP on years ago, I could post a picture (of an NPC), and then format the text (or picture) to be either aligned left, or aligned right, and then if I aligned the picture to the right, I could right-justify the text.

It was all very pretty.  Lacking those options here, I can post a picture, and then text appears at the bottom of the picture, just to the right of it, and well, looks terrible. And I can't justify anything, except for it being centered.  But it isn't inline with the picture.

Any way to get those features here?

The text formatting around an image definitely exists.  Post your image, and add align="left" or align="right" at the end of the image tag.

So <img src="(image URL)" align="left">

More information on text formatting (and just about anything else) can be found under the Help at the top right of the screen.  For example: /help/?t=faqs&page=rubbcode
This message was last edited by the user at 21:10, Tue 05 Nov 2019.

In reply to bigbadron (msg # 2):

Cool!  Buried in the FAQ, I see.  Are there any such options for text?  I'm not seeing one.

I think, but am not certain, that the RuBB code shown in the FAQ, while stipulated as 'center', can be substituted with 'left' or 'right'...I'd test it out here, but I also believe the codes are disabled for this particular forum...

In reply to facemaker329 (msg # 4):

No such luck.

I know I've seen it done, but I don't think I've seen it done with just regular text...it's been a long time, so I could be remembering incorrectly, but I think I've seen it done with some of the table formatting tricks.

That said, having seen it (or thinking that I've seen it) and knowing how to do it (if my memory is correct...which is questionable) are two very different animals.  Sorry I can't offer more help on it.

It’s possible you could do something with a two-columned table, but that’s probably not what you want. You can left-, right-, and center-align text in a table, though.

I take it creating an NPC in the GM menu isn’t what you need? If you have enough lead time and can’t find a suitable portrait in the system, you can submit an image.

If I use an image for an NPC within the post, I typically include their dialogue first, then embed the image at the bottom of the post.

Yup, table formatting would be the way to go - this is single column, but you could easily add two columns with NPC portrait embedded in one cell and the text in the second.

EG:



CODE:

<table width="100%",  border="0">
<tr><td align="right">Right aligned text</td></tr>
</table>