+W4G_SOTAGoat Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Is there a way to use the <br> take to put line breaks in the hints? It shows up ok enrypted but when unencrypted it's all run together. I want it to look like: State 1: blah blah State 2: Blah Blah Scroll down for some REAL spoilers if you get stuck... Stage 1... State 2..... Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 (edited) Waiting for this thread to be moved.... Check out the Knowledge Books article, which will link you to: http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk/resources/htmlcodes.html Or you could do a forum search for "html coding" or something like that. Lots of links to html sites have been posted in various threads. Edited November 3, 2011 by Pup Patrol Quote Link to comment
+dfx Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 HTML doesn't work in hints. That's a long-standing bug, some hints behave correctly, some don't. So far I haven't figured out what makes the difference. Quote Link to comment
+W4G_SOTAGoat Posted November 3, 2011 Author Share Posted November 3, 2011 Waiting for this thread to be moved.... Check out the Knowledge Books article, which will link you to: http://www.follow-the-arrow.co.uk/resources/htmlcodes.html Or you could do a forum search for "html coding" or something like that. Lots of links to html sites have been posted in various threads. I've done HTML/Perl/PHP/etc for 15 years. I know what HTML tags are. The question is why doesn't it work in Hints. Hence. it is a WEBSITE question. Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 Hints are intended to be "light" pieces of information that provide a quick bit of help for finding the cache. They are supposed to be short and concise so that they are easy to manually decrypt and view on a variety of devices. I'm not sure that providing HTML capabilities in the hint field will help with the intended use of hints. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 One way to have multiple levels of hints is to write the spoilers backwards, like this: [hint:] low [spoiler:] kcoryarg Quote Link to comment
+Bamilbis Posted November 3, 2011 Share Posted November 3, 2011 I've thought of a work around. I've never seen it, but why not type half the hint UN encrypted and a final hint encrypted? The cacher could read the hint and then unencrypt to read the second half. The CO would have to self encrypt half the section when he posts it. Quote Link to comment
+zsdeng15014 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 When I want to add line breaks, I do this: [Hint 1] | | [Hint 2] Quote Link to comment
cezanne Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Hints are intended to be "light" pieces of information that provide a quick bit of help for finding the cache. They are supposed to be short and concise so that they are easy to manually decrypt and view on a variety of devices. I'm not sure that providing HTML capabilities in the hint field will help with the intended use of hints. I am also not sure whether html makes sense for hints as it will be abused as well. I'd like to comment, however, that the hint section for complex mystery and multi caches can be longer even though each individual hint is short and concise and is easily decryptable in the field. It is quite natural that a 10 stage cache might need a more involved hint section than a traditional. Cezanne Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 It is quite natural that a 10 stage cache might need a more involved hint section than a traditional.Agreed, but do we need anything more complicated than this? [stage 1:] Lorem ipsum [stage 2:] dolor sit amet [stage 3:] consectetur [stage 4:] adipisicing elit [stage 5:] sed do eiusmod [stage 6:] tempor incididunt [stage 7:] ut labore [stage 8:] et dolore [stage 9:] magna aliqua [final:] Ut enim ad minim veniam Quote Link to comment
stebu Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 One place where this messes things up is when you are trying to enter multi-lingual hints. Encrypted they show up nicely: [FIN]ogfljgösjflägjsd [ENG]cvbcvbjhghjg But after decryption it is: [FIN]kiven alla[ENG]under a stone With long hints (and maybe another language) it is tedious to find your own. Quote Link to comment
cezanne Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 (edited) It is quite natural that a 10 stage cache might need a more involved hint section than a traditional.Agreed, but do we need anything more complicated than this? [stage 1:] Lorem ipsum [stage 2:] dolor sit amet [stage 3:] consectetur [stage 4:] adipisicing elit [stage 5:] sed do eiusmod [stage 6:] tempor incididunt [stage 7:] ut labore [stage 8:] et dolore [stage 9:] magna aliqua [final:] Ut enim ad minim veniam Apart from the fact that it can be in several languages, I do not need anything more complicated. However, without line breaks e.g. the last line might mix with other lines. So I think line breaks might not do harm, while general html abilities are certainly overkill. Cezanne Edited November 5, 2011 by cezanne Quote Link to comment
+sbeelis Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 One place where this messes things up is when you are trying to enter multi-lingual hints. Encrypted they show up nicely: [FIN]ogfljgösjflägjsd [ENG]cvbcvbjhghjg But after decryption it is: [FIN]kiven alla[ENG]under a stone With long hints (and maybe another language) it is tedious to find your own. I agree. While I think HTML or BBCode in hints would be nice, I can see why they are not supported. But please fix the bug that linefeeds which are correctly shown while the hint is encrypted, are lost when it is decrypted. Quote Link to comment
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