TGML stands for Tecumseh Group Markup Language. TGML is proprietary to these forums and allows you to format your posts, enabling bolding, italicizing, and so on, as well as typing in color and changing your text alignment (center, right alignment).
You have the option to process TGML in your posts, allowing them access to bold, italic, text colors, etc., or you can turn TGML off to ignore TGML markup commands and output your post as you typed it.
Below are the available tags, and sample usage...
Inline formatting | |
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[b]bold[/b] | bold |
[i]italic[/i] | italic |
[bi]bold italic[/bi] | bold italic |
[u]underline[/u] | underline |
[s]strikethrough[/s] | |
[sub]sub[/sub]script | subscript |
[sup]super[/sup]script | superscript |
[small]small[/small] text | small text |
[tt]MonoSpaced Text[/tt] | MonoSpaced Text |
[kbd]Key[/kbd] name | Key name |
[!]Attention![/!] [attn]Attention![/attn] |
Attention! Attention! |
sample [box]boxed[/box] text | sample boxed text |
Block formatting | |
[pre]pre for mat ted[/pre] |
pre for |
[left]left aligned text[/left] |
left aligned text |
[center]centered text[/center] |
centered text |
[right]right aligned text[/right] |
right aligned text |
sample [floatl]left floated[/floatl] text | sample left floated text |
sample [right]right floated[/right] text | sample right floated text |
sample [bbox]boxed[/bbox] text | sample boxed text |
sample [indent]indented[indent] and more indented[/indent][/indent] text | sample indented text and more indented |
[quote]A stitch in time saves nine...[/quote] |
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[quote Dave]I hate computers![/quote] |
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[code] <html> <head> <title>Page</title> </head> <body> Page content </body> </html> [/code] |
CODE<html> <head> <title>Page</title> </head> <body> Page content </body> </html> |
[code HTML] [aqua]<html>[/aqua] [aqua]<head>[/aqua] [teal]<title>[/teal]Page[teal]</title>[/teal] [aqua]</head>[/aqua] [navy]<body>[/navy] Page content [navy]</body>[/navy] [aqua]</html>[/aqua] [/code] |
CODE --> HTML<html> <head> <title>Page</title> </head> <body> Page content </body> </html> |
Links will not automatically become clickable inside [code] tags, but you can use other TGML. | |
[spoiler]This is a spoiler.[/spoiler] | Spoiler:This is a spoiler. |
[spoiler Give up?]This is a spoiler.[/spoiler] | Spoiler (Give up?)This is a spoiler. |
To read the contents of the spoiler, move the mouse pointer move the spoiler box. | |
List formatting | |
[ul] [li]item 1[/li] [li]item 2[/li] [/ul] |
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[ul square] [li]item A[/li] [ul circle] [li]item i[/li] [li]item ii[/li] [/ul] [li]item B[/li] [li]item C[/li] [/ul] |
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You can use [ul disc], [ul circle], or [ul square] to change the bullet style. | |
[ol] [li]item 1[/li] [li]item 2[/li] [/ol] |
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[ol A] [li]item A[/li] [ol i] [li]item i[/li] [li]item ii[/li] [/ol] [li]item B[/li] [li]item C[/li] [/ol] |
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You can use [ol A], [ol a], [ol I], [ol i], or [ol 1] to change the numbering. | |
Coloring | |
[color #ff0000]red text[/color] [color green]green text[/color] [color red yellow]red highlighted text[/color] | red text green text red highlighted text |
Any "#" prefixed 3 or 6 digit RGB hex code or color name is permissible. | |
[blue]blue text[/blue] [purple]purple text[/purple] |
blue text purple text |
Allowable colors using this shortcut are black, white, aqua, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, and yellow. | |
[highlight]higlighted text[/highlight] | higlighted text |
[highlight #ff99ff]highlighted text[/highlight] | highlighted text |
sample [red][box]boxed[/box][/red] text | sample boxed text |
sample [green][bbox]box[/bbox][/green] text | sample boxed text |
Linking | |
https://google.com/ | https://google.com/ |
[link https://google.com/]Google[/link] | |
Including objects | |
[img https://tipmaster.com/images/frog.gif] | |
Images larger than 400 pixels wide can cause your thread's page to distort. Please try to keep images posted under this size. | |
[youtube s8GHgm0nYpw] | |
:-) and the world will [smile] back to you | and the world will back to you |
Emoticons are not recognized inside [code] tags. See TGML Emoticon Reference for more. | |
Special elements | |
[tab]inserts four non-breaking spaces |
inserts four non-breaking spaces |
6 [÷] 0 = [∞] | 6 ÷ 0 = ∞ |
TGML supports the use of HTML character entities. Put the character entity in square brackets: [π]. See TGML Character Entity Reference for more. | |
[[]b]bold text[[]/b] | [b]bold text[/b] |
[ignore][b]bold text[/b][/ignore] | [b]bold text[/b] |
You can use the [ignore] tag to let TGML know you don't want to mark up a section of your post. | |
Special Programmer's Note: A small minority of members, posting certain types of programming code, experience conflicts with TGML. If you are posting code, please check your output to be sure it outputs correctly. (Especially check the formatting around URLS and array subscripts). If your code does not look right, try surrounding the problem portion with the [ignore]..[/ignore] tags to ignore TGML, or use the checkbox to disallow TGML from your post altogether. |
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Final words | |
You can also combine the TGML tags: [color purple][b][i][u]Bold Italic Purple Underlined Text[/u][/i][/b][/color] |
You can also combine the TGML tags: Bold Italic Purple Underlined Text |
NOTE: the closing tags must be in reverse sequence of the opening tags [b][u]This Works[/u][/b] [b][u]This Won't[/b][/u] |
NOTE: the closing tags must be in reverse sequence of the opening tags This Works This Won't |
Thanks to everyone who helped test the TGML processor, with special thanks to:
Pulling this off would have been impossible
without your help.