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Typing with symbols

Ok... so I know we can use some basic formatting and HTML entities in roll20 for macros and such... however I was wondering if anyone could help me out with finding some usable HTML entities to help reduce the text clutter on some of my macros... I'm not even sure if the symbols i'm looking for are usable within roll20 either... so if you know for a fact that there is nothing usable atm for this task, please tell me... anyways what I'm looking for are some symbols for the following: Fire Electric Explosive So far all I can find on my own for these are webdings and wingdings neither of which are usable in roll20 to my knowledge...
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Gen Kitty
Forum Champion
There's alt key codes ( <a href="http://www.alt-codes.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alt-codes.net/</a> ), but they have nothing like what you're looking for, alas. However, I was able to score some musical notes, a sun symbol, and a heart for my macros!
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The Aaron
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API Scripter
I like this site for finding symbols: <a href="http://csbruce.com/software/utf-8.html" rel="nofollow">http://csbruce.com/software/utf-8.html</a> You can also just search for "unicode &lt;something&gt;": Fire: <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f525" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f525</a>... Lightning: <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f5f2" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f5f2</a>... Bomb: <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a3" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a3</a>...
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Gen Kitty
Forum Champion
&lt;Expletives of Joy!&gt;. &lt;Expletives of Joy!&gt; . You have changed my life, T'Aaron, YET AGAIN.
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The Aaron
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API Scripter
HAHAHAHAHA. Yup. =D
this is perfect... I wonder if there is anything that's more of an explosion burst though... the bomb is kinda hard to tell what it is when applied to the roll template.
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The Aaron
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API Scripter
Yeah, I was trying to find something, but wasn't having much luck... What's your use case, would a small image be just as good?
i'm using it in a Savage Worlds game for identifying different bonus damage types in rolls... so a small image might be just as good if it stays within the same small space...
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The Aaron
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API Scripter
Collision symbol! <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a5" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a5</a>...
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The Aaron
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API Scripter
Here's kind of a nice summary page: <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_usefu" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_usefu</a>... Possibly better lightning bolts at that size: <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/21af/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/21af/</a>... <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/299a/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/299a/</a>...
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both the image and the emoji from the collision symbol would be perfect... but I seem to be having trouble resizing them down to a usable size for the task at hand... it's either to big and breaks formatting, or is too small and just doesn't look right... i guess for now the bomb will just have to do... but that image from the collision symbol emoji is exactly the type of symbol I was looking for... the image that appears when using the HTML entity code ๐Ÿ’ฅ just kinda looks like a blob rather than an explosion... thankyou though, you've been a great help.
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The Aaron
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No worries!
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Gen Kitty
Forum Champion
&lt;more expletives of joy!&gt;
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The Aaron
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BWAHAHAHAHA.
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Gold
Forum Champion
This seems like an excellent technique. So anyone can just put little typing symbols in your chat messages and macros? Clever.
Gold said: This seems like an excellent technique. So anyone can just put little typing symbols in your chat messages and macros? Clever. I had typed "Raise:" "Fire:" "Explosive:" & "Electric:" in my macros but the text broke the formatting of the templates G.V. made so I wanted to shorten the text... and abbriviations looked bad... but then I remembered someone mentioned using symbols in a template before so I thought "maybe I can do something like that... tried webdings and of course that didn't work so I posted here for help... so glad I did cause the symbols express the idea without requiring a ton of space that could break the template's formatting.
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Gold
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The Aaron said: Here's kind of a nice summary page: <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_usefu" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_usefu</a>... Wait, so we can put all those emoji-looking items like hamburger and umbrella โ˜” in our chat? This could be a game changer. Ok, there are Dwarven letters! u16A0: แš  แšก แšข แšฃ แšค แšฅ แšฆ แšง แšจ แšฉ แšช แšซ แšฌ แšญ แšฎ แšฏ แšฐ แšฑ แšฒ แšณ แšด แšต แšถ แšท แšธ แšน แšบ แšป แšผ แšฝ แšพ แšฟ u16C0: แ›€ แ› แ›‚ แ›ƒ แ›„ แ›… แ›† แ›‡ แ›ˆ แ›‰ แ›Š แ›‹ แ›Œ แ› แ›Ž แ› แ› แ›‘ แ›’ แ›“ แ›” แ›• แ›– แ›— แ›˜ แ›™ แ›š แ›› แ›œ แ› แ›ž แ›Ÿ
Gold said: The Aaron said: Here's kind of a nice summary page: <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_usefu" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_usefu</a>... Wait, so we can put all those emoji-looking items like hamburger and umbrella โ˜” in our chat? This could be a game changer. Ok, there are Dwarven letters! u16A0: แš  แšก แšข แšฃ แšค แšฅ แšฆ แšง แšจ แšฉ แšช แšซ แšฌ แšญ แšฎ แšฏ แšฐ แšฑ แšฒ แšณ แšด แšต แšถ แšท แšธ แšน แšบ แšป แšผ แšฝ แšพ แšฟ u16C0: แ›€ แ› แ›‚ แ›ƒ แ›„ แ›… แ›† แ›‡ แ›ˆ แ›‰ แ›Š แ›‹ แ›Œ แ› แ›Ž แ› แ› แ›‘ แ›’ แ›“ แ›” แ›• แ›– แ›— แ›˜ แ›™ แ›š แ›› แ›œ แ› แ›ž แ›Ÿ I see squares...
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Gold
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Darn. It shows up as Dwarven letters here (on a Mac). Still, it might work in the chat even if it doesn't work in the forum. Here are a few more I've typed up, โ“โ“ฃโ“ฃโ“โ“’โ“šโ“ข ๏„ณ๏„ฐ๏„ผ๏„ฐ๏„ถ๏„ด ํ–ˆํ–†ํ–˜ํ–™ํ–Žํ–“ํ–Œ ํ–† ํ–˜ํ–•ํ–Šํ–‘ํ–‘ ศผศบsลงษจnวฅ ศบ sแตฝษ‡ล‚ล‚ Edit: haha okay some of those changed appearance even for me (the 3rd one was readable when I pasted it, changed to a different letterform after I submitted this post). Supposed to say attacks damage casting a spell casting a spell
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Gold said: Darn. It shows up as Dwarven letters here (on a Mac). Still, it might work in the chat even if it doesn't work in the forum. Here are a few more I've typed up, โ“โ“ฃโ“ฃโ“โ“’โ“šโ“ข ๏„ณ๏„ฐ๏„ผ๏„ฐ๏„ถ๏„ด ํ–ˆํ–†ํ–˜ํ–™ํ–Žํ–“ํ–Œ ํ–† ํ–˜ํ–•ํ–Šํ–‘ํ–‘ ศผศบsลงษจnวฅ ศบ sแตฝษ‡ล‚ล‚ Edit: haha okay some of those changed appearance even for me (the 3rd one was readable when I pasted it, changed to a different letterform after I submitted this post). Supposed to say attacks damage casting a spell casting a spell 1, 3, & 4 show for me but #2 is squares... guessing it must be something with operating systems or browsers... well regardless of all that... having symbols to express some things in macros will certainly help out in the long run for many many things...
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Gold
Forum Champion
Must be. I thought either of these sets would be great for marking Elevation if you have spells or scenarios that change height or depth, แš แš‚ แšƒ แš„ แš… แš† แš‡ แšˆ แš‰ แšŠ แš‹ แšŒ แš แšŽ แš โŽบ โŽป โŽผ โŽฝ Here are a few more favorites that looked like they might be useful for macros / chat / templates. Don't know how many of these will come across. โšก โŒ› โœ…โŒโŽ โ™ˆ โ™‰ โ™Š โ™‹ โ™Œ โ™ โ™Ž โ™ โ™ โ™‘ โ™’ โ™“ โ˜€ โ˜ โ˜‚ โ˜ƒ โ˜  โ™ณ โ™ด โ™ต โ™ถ โ™ท โ™ธ โ™น โžŠ โž‹ โžŒ โž โžŽ โž โž โž‘ โž’ โž“ โ™จ โ™ฉ โ™ช โ™ซ โ™ฌ
the 2 sets for spell elevation are boxes... sets: 1 3 & 7 are boxes... at least I think thats 7... can't tell if the 5th line is just a blank line or another set of symbols that just didn't show up...
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Gold
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Alright. Thanks for the dialog. I'll study up on the question of what determines how these appear across browsers / OS / forum / chat. I made a macro with all those symbols to try in my game chat. Next game I'll ask all the players if it's boxes or symbols to them.
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Lithl
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Gold said: Alright. Thanks for the dialog. I'll study up on the question of what determines how these appear across browsers / OS / forum / chat. I made a macro with all those symbols to try in my game chat. Next game I'll ask all the players if it's boxes or symbols to them. It mostly depends on the fonts installed on the computer and the font the character is supposed to be rendered as. (CSS can be used to load fonts that the user doesn't have installed, but the security proxy used by Roll20 means you have to specifically allow such a thing when it's used in character sheets.) The default font list on Roll20 is: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif. If someone has a font installed named Helvetica Neue, that font will be used, etc. down the line. sans-serif is a generic font; if none of the named fonts are available on the system, the browser uses whatever font is set to be used for generic sans-serif fonts. (Which, frankly, is often Arial...) Not all font files contain all possible characters (in fact, few fonts support every character). If the font that's chosen doesn't include the character that you're trying to render, the "replacement character" character is used, which is usually rendered as either an empty box, a box with a question mark, or a black diamond with a question mark.
Everyone and their extended families already knows about the Pictos listed in the Css Wizardry thread ...but I'm gonna add it so I will look smart and stuff.
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The Aaron
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That is pretty cool, though not really applicable to Chell's use case as she can't specify a font in a macro.
The Aaron said: That is pretty cool, though not really applicable to Chell's use case as she can't specify a font in a macro. indeed...