Hand template

Abbeybear

Does this forum have an easy to access hand template so that we can see a complete layout easily?

Whilst a poster may prefer to give a single hand at the outset, it is often helpful to see the complete layout (and may help to avoid polarity errors, anticlockwise auctions and the like).

gordonrainsford

Apparently there is software called Vanilla available, if any IT experts on the forum want to investigate.

Henrz

Not a great solution but you can use HTML tables to achieve this,

	AKxxx T9xx xx xx
QJx AKQJ xxx xxxx	Deal N All Vul	xxxx xxx xx AKQJ
	x xx AKQJxx xxxx

A more generic one would look like this,

	Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs
Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs	Deal NSEW NSEW Vul	Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs
	Spades Hearts Diamonds Clubs

If you want to copy using this just quote my post and fill in the relevant bits, taking care not to touch anything within the <>, I'll try and look for a more elegant solution though.

For Bidding you can also use tables, but they can be written a lot easier in Markdown tables

N	E	S	W
		P	1NT
P	2!h*	P	3!s*
P	P	P

They are pretty simple to use, just use the | to separate the bits of the table, an important thing is to have the second line always be |-|-|-|-| otherwise the table won't work correctly.

weejonnie

A more generic one would look like this,

	♠ ♥ ♦ ♣			W N E S 1♠ Pass 3♠ Pass 4♣(1) Pass 4♠ Pass 4NT Pass 5♦; Pass 5♥ Pass 5NT Pass 6♣(2) Pass 6♠ Pass 7NT Pass pass Pass
♠ AKQJ ♥ ♦ ♣	Deal NSEW NSEW Vul	♠ 5432 ♥ 5432 ♦ 5432 ♣ 2
	♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

(1) - After long hesitation
(2) - Alerted (by mistake)

This may be more suitable.

gordonrainsford

Thank you both for your helpful suggestions.

Henrz

Another option if editing HMTL tables doesn't sound like fun is using a website like http://cimms.ou.edu/~lakshman/bridge/handlayout.htm where you can type in everything relevant and then simply paste the code into here.