Question on highlighting text in chat window from a macro

Hello all, If I have a macro that sends the message "@{selected|token_name} may conjure a ALLOSAURUS w/3th slot, 2 w/5th, or 3 w/7th level, or 4 w/9th level slot!" to the chat window, how can I bold it, or change the color of the font, or something like this? Thank you!

I'd try using the PowerCards API script. 

You can Italicize, bold, and bold-italicize by bracketing text in 1, 2, or 3 *'s. Also, if you made a table with a single entry for each of the things you wanted highlighted, you could use an inline roll on that table (with a guaranteed result of whatever you wanted) to get a black highlight and white text of whatever the text is for the value of the table.

Check out the wiki for basic formatting   here . Also not noted is the use of the backtick ` to highlight things. That's on the ~ key.   ``test`` comes out as 

Thanks Scott! Works great. Thanks Andrew also.  I havn't used PowerCards before so but I'll look into that option as well.

Ed S. said: Check out the wiki for basic formatting   here . Also not noted is the use of the backtick ` to highlight things. That's on the ~ key.   ``test`` comes out as  Huh, had no idea about that. Way better than my convoluted table suggestion. Learn something new every day.

Scott C. said: Ed S. said: Check out the wiki for basic formatting   here . Also not noted is the use of the backtick ` to highlight things. That's on the ~ key.   ``test`` comes out as  Huh, had no idea about that. Way better than my convoluted table suggestion. Learn something new every day. You can call a table inside the backticks and get both:   &{template:5eDefault} {{title=Critical Hit}} {{subheader=@{selected|token_name}}} {{save=1}} {{subheader2=on @{target|token_name}}} {{freetext=``[[1t[Crit]]]``}} Comes out looking like this :

Ed S. said: Scott C. said: Ed S. said: Check out the wiki for basic formatting   here . Also not noted is the use of the backtick ` to highlight things. That's on the ~ key.   ``test`` comes out as  Huh, had no idea about that. Way better than my convoluted table suggestion. Learn something new every day. You can call a table inside the backticks and get both:   &{template:5eDefault} {{title=Critical Hit}} {{subheader=@{selected|token_name}}} {{save=1}} {{subheader2=on @{target|token_name}}} {{freetext=``[[1t[Crit]]]``}} Comes out looking like this : 1) I wonder why this isn't documented 2) Looks like it doesn't use the asterisk formatting with red text Edit: 3) I just tried this in Firefox, requires 3 preceding and 2 following the text.  Also works with asterisk formatting in normal chat.  Could be the use of the table text in template, within [[ ]].  I had that problem using some tables before.

Dorgrim said: 1) I wonder why this isn't documented Good question! I just added some documentation on the ``code`` markdown to Basic Formatting . Dorgrim said: 2) Looks like it doesn't use the asterisk formatting with red text By design, Rollable Table outputs do not parse Basic Formatting . Dorgrim said: requires 3 preceding and 2 following the text. You're finding the need to include an extra backtick due to an inadvertent use of the  Escape Text Chat Command (which was introduced by the Update of Holding ). I just added that documentation to the Wiki, as well; thanks!

Yes, my Rollable Table has the asterisks in the text, I wish it would parse, but even though it doesn't they do *draw attention* to the title.

Silvyre said: Dorgrim said: 1) I wonder why this isn't documented Good question! I just added some documentation on the ``code`` markdown to Basic Formatting . Thanks for the information on the backtick. Ed called it highlighting (true) but Silvyre specified that it is the 'code' format. What are the characteristics of the rendered text in default chat (not powercards, not roll template)?  It would make red text color, and yellow background highlight color? Is it changing the font to a monospace font like the Code setting when posting in forum? Is it differently sized, perhaps smaller, than regular chat text? Is it changing the font to a monospace font like the Code setting when posting in forum?

The text formatting in chat is based on Markdown, and Markdown uses backticks for inline code formatting, so calling it code format would be more correct than calling it a highlight.