Mission help, request's and MP creation

[JimTM]

What is your input text exactly? Is it formatted in some way (I.e. did you format it in some other program and paste it into the converter)? Try writing the text in the converter or pasting plain text into the converter and then applying formats.

Edited May 17, 2020 by JimTM

[Papagon2]

11 hours ago, JimTM said:

What is your input text exactly? Is it formatted in some way (I.e. did you format it in some other program and paste it into the converter)? Try writing the text in the converter or pasting plain text into the converter and then applying formats.

 

Here is what I get:

 

 

I have not changed anything. I do not know what to change too if I need to change something there..

 

I have not copy pasted anything there.

Edited May 18, 2020 by Papagon2

[JimTM]

The HTML converter does not convert bold text to <b> tags anymore but rather to <strong> tags. You'll have to change <strong> ...</strong> to <b>...</b> manually.

 

I'm not sure that you can use underlines in mission descriptions. I think you need to use very basic HTML tags such as <b>, <i>, <br>, <ul>, ,ol>, and <li>. There may be other tags your can use but I haven't tested extensively.

[Beebop]

To have underlined text use the color highlighted tags;

...the word <u>here</u> will be underlined...

Edited May 18, 2020 by Beebop

[Papagon2]

On 5/18/2020 at 6:16 AM, JimTM said:

The HTML converter does not convert bold text to <b> tags anymore but rather to <strong> tags. You'll have to change <strong> ...</strong> to <b>...</b> manually.

 

I'm not sure that you can use underlines in mission descriptions. I think you need to use very basic HTML tags such as <b>, <i>, <br>, <ul>, ,ol>, and <li>. There may be other tags your can use but I haven't tested extensively.

 

On 5/18/2020 at 6:24 AM, Beebop said:

To have underlined text use the color highlighted tags;

...the word <u>here</u> will be underlined...

 

Tanks allot you both. Well to bad it does not use <b> anymore since it would be really easy to make the description less complicated. 

I beleive the <p> is something we do not want or need in the description?

[WWDriftwood]

3 hours ago, Papagon2 said:

Well to bad it does not use <b> anymore

 

It does use <b>bold</b>

It does not use <strong>bold, emphasis for people that are blind and having content read to them by an app</strong>  

 

3 hours ago, Papagon2 said:

I think you need to use very basic HTML tags such as <b>, <i>, <br>, <ul>, ,ol>, and <li>

 

Just stick with the simple tags, I wouldn't use the HTML converter, you have to change remove more tags then if you just add the simple tags as needed by hand. It messed me up the first time I started using html in the description and realizing this does not work like like standard html.

 

It would be really cool if I could setup my own style sheet and use standard html/css within the descriptions. But you can't... ? 

 

Maybe setup a mission description test demonstrating the different tags to get a feel for it, what it will/won't do. 

 

<b>My bold subtitle text using the b tag</b><br /><br />I used 2 break br tags to create a paragraph space<br />I used a single br break for a hard return.<br /><br /><b>My next paragraph intro text bold</b> - this is the rest of my text<br /><br />paragraph beak title<br /><br ><li>bullet 1</li><li>bullet 2</li><br /><br /> <i><b>next paragraph line bold b tag, italicized i tag</b></li>

 

<br> works fine, I'm just used to <br /> wich works fine... just tinker with it. 

 

This is not for everyone, but - Sometimes I'll write and format in microsoft word, basic bold, bullets, etc. When I'm done, I go in and add all the tags within the word doc (copy/paste tags is handy), backspace bullets and add <li></li>, etc. Then copy/paste it into notepad and backspace/space every line as needed to remove white space and paste it into the ME description. 

 

Sounds worse that it is. Then fine tune it within ME as needed. 

[Beebop]

Actually I just learned to "write" in the format the game likes.  I open Notepad (any decent text editor will do) and do it that way.  The Description box is small and for anyone with less than pretty good eyesight, it can be difficult to work with. 

Once I'm done I Copy/Paste the notepad document into the Description box of Mission Properties.  Then I open the game and take a look, note any errors, correct them on the Notepad document, re- Copy/Paste, and then check again.

Now that I'm getting more proficient at it I'll sometimes make a copy of the .eng file, (or the file of your proffered language), and type it in there saving the time of having to open the editor, Copy/Paste into Description box.

The biggest thing as I see it is to avoid spaces or improper use of the tags, like having spaces in them etc.

 

It's a little bit of work but no harder to learn, easier in fact, than the editor itself IMO. 

It takes longer to set up a bomber drop that works right the first time.?