Examples:

bold text
italic text
red text (other colors are possible)
bold blue italic text
large text
small text
monospace
monospace red bold
smiley

this is a link to CCW Forum

You can also show source code using [ code=none ] [/code] (without the spaces inside the square brackets). The text shown below is a 'code=none' block to enable showing the commands. Here is the information as I entered it:

 
[b]bold text[/b]
[i]italic text[/i]
[color=#f00]red text (other colors are possible)[/color]
[b][color=#00f][i]bold blue italic text[/i][/color][/b]
[size=large]large text[/size]
[size=small]small text[/size]
[monospace]monospace[/monospace]
[monospace][b]monospace bold[/b][/monospace]
:-) smiley
[img]http://computer-chess.org/forum/favicon.ico[/img]
[link=http://computer-chess.org/forum/]this is a link to CCW Forum[/link]
 

If you use [ code ] [/code] the forum displays a blue monospaced font. There is also [ inlinecode ] [/inlinecode]. The difference from [ code ] is code falls inline rather than skipping a line first. So you can have printf("Hello World\n"); in the middle of a sentence. The inline code is always shown in monospaced blue.

How to post a table

 
[monospace]
|  1 | Hamsters 0.71      | 19.5 / 25 |        |
|  2 | Tao 5.60           | 19.0 / 25 |        |
|  3 | Baron 2.23         | 17.0 / 25 | 206.75 |
|  4 | Cyrano 0.60b17ja   | 17.0 / 25 | 195.75 |
 
|  5 | Sloppy 0.2.0ja     | 15.5 / 25 |        |
|  6 | Yace 0.9987        | 14.5 / 25 | 170.50 |
|  7 | Danasah 3.97b      | 14.5 / 25 | 169.00 |
|  8 | LGEvolution 1.0018 | 14.0 / 25 | 163.00 |
|  9 | FrancescaMad 0.13  | 14.0 / 25 | 159.50 |
| 10 | Abrok 5.00         | 12.0 / 25 | 149.00 |
| 11 | Chronos 1.95       | 12.0 / 25 | 146.50 |
| 12 | Dragon 4.60        | 11.5 / 25 | 136.25 |
| 13 | Nejmet 3.07        | 11.5 / 25 | 131.75 |
| 14 | Gromit 3.082       | 11.0 / 25 | 130.75 |
| 15 | Anatoli 0.35k      | 11.0 / 25 | 123.25 |
| 16 | SmarThink 0.17a    | 11.0 / 25 | 114.25 |
| 17 | KnightDreamer 3.20 | 10.5 / 25 | 126.00 |
| 18 | Pepito 1.59        | 10.5 / 25 | 122.50 |
| 19 | Arasan 11.20       | 10.5 / 25 | 120.00 |
| 20 | Gosu 0.16          | 10.0 / 25 | 110.25 |
 
| 21 | Amyan 1.597        | 10.0 / 25 | 104.50 |
| 22 | GreenLight 3.0122  |  9.5 / 25 |        |
| 23 | Quark 2.35         |  8.0 / 25 |        |
| 24 | Bruja 1.90ja       |  6.0 / 25 |        |
[/monospace]
 

Use spaces only (no tab characters). Preview the table and make sure everything is lined up nice. Last add any color or bold/italic tags, but don't cross the pipe boundaries (pipe char is '|'). The extra tags takes up no room in the final displayed table. Preview again and, if you are satisfied, submit it.

For programmers, I added language syntax-coloring
(using Geshi: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geshi/ )

Example:

 
 
// yet another 'Hello World' program
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int i;
 
    for (i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    { 
        printf ("Hello World!\n");
    }
    return 0;
}
 

The CCW Forum supports the following languages:
c, cpp, csharp, css, delphi, html, html4strict, java, java5, javascript, lisp, perl, php, sql, and xml.

To syntax-color C++ code, do this:

[code=cpp]
...

[/code]

For C# highlighting use:

[code=csharp]
...

[/code]

If you prefer your code with no coloring use 'monospace' or:

[code=none]
...

[/code]

If you want me to add another language, just ask for it. (Geshi syntax-colors more than 100 languages so all I have to do is upload the appropriate language file.) If you want to experiment posting various code snippets, add them to this thread and I will periodically delete old posts if the thread gets too big.

My TODO list:
- add a button for 'code' with a drop-down of supported languages
- allow posting of FEN diagrams

If anyone wants a particular feature, just ask, and I will work on it next. Be advised that it might take a month or more...

Ron

It's the same syntax as in CCC Forum where you put an uppercase or lowercase 'D' surrounded by square brackets, followed by the fen position.

Like this: [D] rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -

or this:
[D]rnbqk2r/ppp2ppp/3p1n2/2b1p3/3PP3/2N2P2/PPP1N1PP/R1BQKB1R b KQkq d3

A big 'thank you' to my son who puzzled out how BBCode parses its strings and how to hook into the BBCode syntax-parsing tree.
===============================================

My remaining TODO list for the forum (after the bugfixing):
- add some more smileys, especially a thumbs-up one that I like
- add a button for 'code' with a drop-down of supported languages

If anyone wants a particular feature, just ask, and I will work on it next. Be advised that it might take a month or more...

Ron