Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-25101690-20170528152231

Mevans mentioned this in his post, but most people seem to ignore it, so I want to stress it once more. To make copying the texts into the mod much easier, please follow a few points on the format:

Plaintext
Use raw plaintext, not formated rich text.

To use plaintext in wiki/forum posts, you can use the  tag to make it look like this:

Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow was fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid.
 * 1) author: Bilbo Baggins
 * 2) title: The Song of Earendil
 * 3) types: rivendell,eriador,shire

You can also use the style attribute in the pre-tag like this:  Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in; her sails he wove of silver fair, of silver were her lanterns made, her prow was fashioned like a swan, and light upon her banners laid.

Add a header with metadata
Mevans has specified the following three meta-data headers:
 * 1) #title: The name of the generated book item
 * 2) #author: The author shown for the book ingame. May be empty.
 * 3) #types: The regions where the book can be found. See Mevans' post for a full list.

In your post you should at least give some thoughts about these points.

Provide a pastable text or file download
Mevens has used Pastebin for this in his examples. -tags are just as good. If you instead prefer to offer your files as download, make sure they have the correct encoding. Mevans didn't specify it explicitely, but I think UTF-8 encoding and Unix-style line endings are required.

As a final word, these are just recommendations to make your post be accepted more easily by Mevans. Your post doesn't have to be polished to perfection when you post it; others can help with fixing errors and formatting. But if your post stays in poor format, Mevans would have to edit your text all over to implement it and I can imagine that he would rather skip your text then. 