Formatting text in signs

[Ishad Nha]

I made a sign with the text "Lennus B & B", it was displayed by the game as "Lennus BB".

If you prefix a letter with an ampersand, that letter will be underlined. It is like the menus in the editors, it only works for one letter in a word.

Apart from the pipe symbol for entering line returns, does anyone know how to add any other formatting to BoA text and signs?

[Celtic Minstrel]

The pipe symbol is the only opportunity for formatting. If I understand correctly why the underline trick works, it's simply a Windows-specific bug.

 

That said, it might be nice to add canonical formatting. But I wouldn't rate it high priority.

[keira]

The & is Windows's magic trick for underlining things to show how to select it using the keyboard. iirc, escape it with a backslash ('\&') and it'll be fine.

[The Mystic]

Or if that doesn't work, try "&&" instead.

[Ishad Nha]

If you prefix a letter with an ampersand, that letter will be underlined. It is like the menus in the editors, it only works for one letter in a line.

If you only want to print an ampersand: "&&" prints as &, this will work only once per line.

I tried and failed to add tab stops to a sign.

[Celtic Minstrel]

I see two people explaining that backslashing or doubling it fixes it... but I bet that that would result in a backslash or double ampersand appearing when the scenario is played on a Mac.

[Ishad Nha]

We already have separate scenario downloads for Windows and Mac, so it is not a fatal problem. As long as designers remember to make the switch for Mac.

[nikki.]

Or, you could, you know, use "+", or "and".