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[benrob0329]

This image perfectly illustrates my love/hate relationship with mesecons.

Sure can be finicky can't it? At least they added new lightstone colors... :)

It can be, but that's not the problem here. This circuit is very reliable, but does not work in the way I would expect.

Each button will cause one of the pistons to activate, and only one (despite them both being wired in) and the power plant won't power the light above it, it'll power the node kiddie-corner to it. Now while I've gotten used to most of Mesecon's weirdness, it still manages to make me go "But why though" a lot.

[duane]

Legends speak of a tree at the heart of the world that rises into the heavens...

[Hybrid Dog]

[duane]

An elven skyscraper. The 50th floor walk-up is a bear.

[thomasthespacefox]

An elven skyscraper. The 50th floor walk-up is a bear.

50 Floors?? you'd sooner walk you feet right off! D:

[Mantar]

it still manages to make me go "But why though" a lot.

I think because somebody thought it was terribly important to make it work exactly like redstone, weird, confusing quirks and all.
Personally I kind of wish somebody would fork it and rationalize it into a new mod. It would break compatibility with existing mesecons builds, but it would also stop sucking so bad. Call it Mesepros or something. If I was sixteen again I'd do it

Lava canyon at night, on Linuxworks:

Lava Canyon.jpg

[thomasthespacefox]

it still manages to make me go "But why though" a lot.

I think because somebody thought it was terribly important to make it work exactly like redstone, weird, confusing quirks and all.
Personally I kind of wish somebody would fork it and rationalize it into a new mod. It would break compatibility with existing mesecons builds, but it would also stop sucking so bad. Call it Mesepros or something. If I was sixteen again I'd do it

Lava canyon at night, on Linuxworks:

Lava Canyon.jpg

Yea, at least they could add some color-coated wires that don't directly connect or something...

[voxelproof]

An elven skyscraper. The 50th floor walk-up is a bear.

Spring seems to be nigh... however not there where eagles dare.

[sorcerykid]

Profiles allow users to build a personalized homepage, to describe themselves, their interests, etc. with access to the complete Bedrock Markup Language (also used in the signs_rx mod) -- which has been extended to with support for embedded images, hyperlinks, and dynamic variables.

This makes me think that a mod which converts markdown to a formspec could be a good idea, markdown is well-known and even readable as source after all.

I'd considered few different markup standards, including HTML and markdown. However, markdown would not suffice since formspecs do not support headings, subheadings, bold text, italic text, or underlined text which are integral to markdown. Likewise, the specification does not account whatsoever for colored text, bordered text, tab stops, pagination, paragraph spacing, etc.

HTML seemed like a better candidate, but it would have required a far more sophisticated parser, which was overkill for basic layout and formatting of signs. BBCode was a happy medium, and mostly inspired the Bedrock Markup Language syntax, albeit with simpler tags tailored for Minetest. Currently, the entire parser is a mere 270 lines, so it is benefits from being economical and extensible.

Here's an example of a few signs from the JT2 server. I imagine it would be difficult to recreate these with just markdown alone.