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==Headings==
A level two heading ("==") will appear with a box around it on the BGA view. A level three heading ("===") will not.


==Images==
==Images==

Revision as of 14:22, 6 April 2022

This page has been created following this forum thread. Because the BGA interface aggressively strips a lot of wiki markup when displaying page rules (all bullet points, images if they aren't formatted in a certain way, etc), users who are trying to write clear rules are either giving up (eg. after wrongly assuming images to be impossible) or making some rules worse (by taking paragraphs and converting them into clear bullet points, where those bullet points don't show up on BGA).

These are some tips on how to get different aspects of ruleset to display properly. Feel free to add additional advice.

Bullet points

The BGA rules display strips all bullet points, if the regular wiki bullet markup of asterisks is used.

A common solution seems to be to add bullet-point unicode symbols. This also requires lines to be separated by paragraph breaks or <br/> tags, otherwise they all appear on the same line.

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Headings

A level two heading ("==") will appear with a box around it on the BGA view. A level three heading ("===") will not.

Images

Attempting to specify an image size in image markup (eg. [[File:Marrakech example.jpg|300px]]) will work in the wiki view, but will mean the image is stripped out on the BGA view.

Images must be included at the default size (so must also be uploaded at the size you want them to appear), eg:

[[File:Marrakech example.jpg]]

It's also possible to add rollover text if desired:

[[File:Marrakech example.jpg|Example move]]

External links will also work within BGA:

[[File:Versions.png|link=https://lumberjacks-studio.com/en/project/trek-12_en/]]

Tables

Table borders are stripped by the BGA display. They can be added back by adding a fixed width border to the image markup, eg:

{| class="wikitable" border="2"
|-
!0-90
|⭐
|-
!91-110
|⭐⭐
|-
!111-125
|⭐⭐⭐
|}

will display as:

0-90
91-110 ⭐⭐
111-125 ⭐⭐⭐