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Providing complete HTML for a comment can be laborious. You can use a small subset of HTML codes to enhance the display of a comment in DDS. All these codes are available:

 

bold                <b>Sample</b>        Sample

 

underline        <u>Sample</u>        Sample

 

italics                <i>Sample</i>        Sample

 

font - The full range of the Font tag is available. Within a cell, make sure to remember to enclose the entire cell within double quotes. The font tag is used primarily for color; e.g. <Font color=red>Sample</font>        Sample

 

center - Center text in a table cell or line with  <center>Sample</center>

Sample

big - Make it a larger font with <big>Sample</big>        Sample

 

small - Or make it smaller with <small>Sample</small>        Sample

 

strike - And finally <strike>Sample</strike> to display        Sample

 

For extra big or extra small, just use two tags: <big><big>Sample</big></big>        Sample

 

blank - Use <br/> for a blank line and

 

paragraph - <p>Sample</p> for paragraph control.

 

table - An "easy" <table> feature is also available, with only minimal html coding required. In its simplest form a table appears between <table></table> tags. For example, this comment

 

[Declarer "S"]

{

       <br/><Big><b>Results:</b> Board 1</big>

 

<table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor=pink>

Contract        By      Lead    Points  Score " "  Declarer

1\NTX-2        S       \C6     +300    100.00% *  LyellCo

3\H-2  N \CA    +100    78.57%  " " PatriciD

1\NTX-1          S      \C7     +100    78.57%          " " FlorencL

1\NT-1     S    \C2       +50     42.86%       " " MariaRu

1\NT-1     S    \C2       +50     42.86%       " " "<big>IanMich</big>"

1\NT-1     S    \C2       +50     42.86%       " " Saul

1\NT-1     W    \H2       -50      7.14%       " " EvieHo

1\NT-1     E    \D2       -50      7.14%       " " Vonda

</table>

}

 

is displayed in DDS like this:

Table

 

Note - The first line under <table> is considered the header line. All cells in the header are bold. Alignment for each cell on the header line is determined by the data i the second line of the table. See below.

 

Each cell in the table is separated by one of more spaces. If you want a space in a cell's field, enclose the cell in double-quotes; e.g. "Two Names".

 

If the contents of the cell is a number, or a percentage, it is right justified. Otherwise it is left justified.