Help, please...

[Sarah]

Okay, one of my charaters is making a nice little (kind of big, actually) informational guide, to include all kinds of information, like what the different machines do, maps, gathering rates, etc. First, when I'm listing the resource gathering rates, do I have to only list the resouces she has seen, or can I put everything I can see on the manufacturing/tools/vehicles ect. list? (I mean, I know some of the things she obviously hasn't seen, like timber and roses, and I wouldn't include that.) She's in her fifties and travels all the time, so I can't remember everything. Same question for the machines.

Also, can someone help me with html? I'm making a big table. Is there any way to change the border around it to make it look better? I just want a different color, and maybe a different width. And every time I try to change the font color, I don't put </font> until the end of the page, so the color should keep going, but in the next cell, it goes back to white. I don't have the patience to paste <font color=black> in every single cell. Also, is there any way to link between different notes in Cantr? Sorry for all the questions, I tried to find out myself before asking, but it didn't really work... I've got too much time on my hands at the moment and I want that note to look good.

[Revanael]

Linking is not allowed - for obvious reasons. A table may be best done as an image. But you cannot use any information that that specific character does not know. Only machine's she's seen, resources she's found, places she's been or has seen maps of - which may not be reliable...

In this case, most of the common machines you'll probably have seen.

[XBL]

For the font color (font-size, font-family etc) you could use css.

Put in the beginning of the note:

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<style>
body, td, th {
font-family: the_font_you_want_to_use;
font-size: the_font_size_you_want_in_px_or_pt;
color: the_font_color_you_want_to_use;
}
</style>

Example:

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<style>
body, td, th {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: black;
}
</style>

NOTE:

font-family: only include fonts that are supported by multiple OS's. You can put up more than one font there, separated by a comma (,). The first one will be displayed, if not available the second will be displayed, etc. Sans-serif is like a fall back: when all the first fonts don't exist, it will use a default non-serif font (different per OS).

font-size: can be listed in pixels (px) or in points (pt) and a few other size-indicators (ahem, can't think of the word). I prefer pixels and points.

color: (yep, no font in front of it) can be a word or a hex-number (like #000000 for black).

For any of above thingies: you can leave them out if you don't want to use them .

Something else: It will probably change the complete layout of the note-page, although I haven't tested it (and I'm not planning to test it either). If you want to prevent this, you could use classes. Some more info on css (which is above): click.

Good luck.

Jochem

[formerly known as hf]

One of my characters is doing the exact same thing... seemed like there were loads of 'ifs' and 'buts' about it - many dind't like the idea... but it's rolling now - the seimple rule is to not put anything in that your charcater hasn't personally experienced.

I found that it was easier not to use HTML, you'll find you'll have to update it regularly (these new modular wepaons gave me one big head ache..._
I just use ASCII to make the table: something like:

___________________________
|Object |Material req. |Use |
|----------|---------------|--------|

etc...

[formerly known as hf]

Ok, so the format of this forum messed that up...

But it works on IG notes...

[XBL]

hullcinatingfarmer: What makes that easier then tables?

Oh, and put code-tags ([code]) around it. That will prevent from messing up .

Jochem

[lordazmaan]

can u post a copy here as well?

[The Industriallist]

can u post a copy here as well?

No. That would be an invitation to CR breach. That is IC information.

[Solfius]

it's because you can't have overlapping tags in HTML, you have to close them in the order you opened them.

you can use embedded CSS, like XBL mentioned, for changing one attribute I'd use the <div> tag, if you open the tag before the table and close it after the changes should affect the entire table.

I think <div color="black"> ....[table].....</div> should do it

[formerly known as hf]

'cos HTML confuses me in the head