Ok, please please Please fix the "battlefield bug"!
I don't know what causes the rules text boxes to do this, but the longer the word, the earlier the return in the formatting. In other words, the way the card formats, it is far quicker to go to the next line if the word is long than if the word is short. The word "battlefield" in particular jumps down to the next line even if the space in the line above is way more than adequate to fit it, this, in turn, causes wholly unnecessary jogs in the rules text that are quite unseemly; at times it even makes the text not fit at all!
Is there anything that can be done?
e.g.
"When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 color Type creature token. Then, if you control less creatures than each opponent, populate."
(This would look incredibly better)
"When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 color Type creature token. Then, if you control less creatures than each opponent, populate."
The 'text box' it prints for rules text is either a fixed pixel width. Since Beleren (the font Magic cards use and MTGCS uses) isn't a monospace font (a font where each character uses the same amount of space), each character will require a certain number of pixels of space on any given line. For example, you can fit 52 - on a single line but you can have 78 of the thinner . characters on one line. This means that even if you have two cards with names of equal length, Iliad and Cosmo for example are both 5 characters, they will take up different amounts of space on the line and possibly cause it to force a new line. This is most true of particularly long (or wide) words like 'battlefield' or 'graveyard'.
A good example of the same thing happening in a real card is Abbot of Keral Keep or Adaptive Automaton. Wizards does their best to make it so line 1 isn't much shorter than line 2 and it is up to cardsmiths to do the same. There are even two font size options so you can pick what works best for you visually.
Technically also, the text box extends about 2px-5px too far to the right and doesn't maintain any padding at the right edge of the text area like real cards do. See below for how text bleeds too far on the right side:
Well, if your going to argue, I'm not gonna list the wanted items, but I'll list a bunch of other bugs:
-Pictures not working for Planeswalkers or Modern Frame on mobile -Featured card not showing on mobile -{g}{g} becomes {g} {g} for some reason. -Wait for some more...
I wonder if it's a stalker @TrippleBoggey3? XD I've seen that before. I think they'll have a look at it and see why it's doing that. And don't worry, I don't think he's a stalker. XD
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I don't know what causes the rules text boxes to do this, but the longer the word, the earlier the return in the formatting. In other words, the way the card formats, it is far quicker to go to the next line if the word is long than if the word is short. The word "battlefield" in particular jumps down to the next line even if the space in the line above is way more than adequate to fit it, this, in turn, causes wholly unnecessary jogs in the rules text that are quite unseemly; at times it even makes the text not fit at all!
Is there anything that can be done?
e.g.
"When CARDNAME enters the
battlefield, create a 1/1 color Type creature token.
Then, if you control less creatures than each
opponent, populate."
(This would look incredibly better)
"When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, create a
1/1 color Type creature token. Then, if you control
less creatures than each opponent, populate."
(It also takes up one less line!)
A good example of the same thing happening in a real card is Abbot of Keral Keep or Adaptive Automaton. Wizards does their best to make it so line 1 isn't much shorter than line 2 and it is up to cardsmiths to do the same. There are even two font size options so you can pick what works best for you visually.
Technically also, the text box extends about 2px-5px too far to the right and doesn't maintain any padding at the right edge of the text area like real cards do. See below for how text bleeds too far on the right side:
Obviously far more than enough room for "battlefield" to fit on the top line, yet still it forces to the next, very aggravating!
-Pictures not working for Planeswalkers or Modern Frame on mobile
-Featured card not showing on mobile
-{g}{g} becomes {g}
{g} for some reason.
-Wait for some more...
XD
I've seen that before. I think they'll have a look at it and see why it's doing that. And don't worry, I don't think he's a stalker.
XD
And, btw, is it planned to bring the generic hybrid mana (e.g. {2/w} etc.) eventually?
Oh, and double cards (maybe with Fuse) would be nice, but I think you know that already.
Instead of listening to request after request, just put in everything Mtg Set Editor has to offer, even the new mana symbols.
Truthfully, I'd normally prefer donating to the poor than to a website. For the sake of myself, I'd definitely donate to this site. But I usually cannot handle donating to things like these, or even buying things without thinking about all those people out there lacking even basic necessities.
Very well, one day I will donate, but not today.
XD
I love that the great, fun service provided here is free, but if someone can afford it, he or she should pay what the enjoyment is worth for him or her. Being able to spend money on let's say a starbucks coffee every single day and still using this site for free would be quite a ****move.
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XD
I don't think that actually does anything!
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