Modern American Bridge Bidding

Sample Table

Using Markdown extension

When writing we can type "!" and first character of suit name to generate : clubs, : diamonds, : hearts, spades We can insert hands inline with one pragma. Start with '!' and '{' and the keyword 'hand'. Then type in the hand in pseudo .LIN format. E.g. SAKQ.HAKQ.DAKQ.CAKQJ That is the suit and cards AKQT9876432 a dot '.' and then next suit. Of course you could still just type '!' 's' and then AKQ to get AKQ, but the {hand } pragma puts the display in a CSS division to format. Also, you can do {fhand to get a full hand in a table. Finally the '!'{deal pragma takes 4 parameters to display a full deal, perhaps it should be call deal not 'diagram' First is D and the dealer id 'NESW', second is the Vulnerabilty: 0=None, B=Both, N=N-S and E=E-W. The remaining parameters are 4 hands, defined like the LIN format above

I wanted to bid 1 but the ops opened 1 Could we bid 2S or 2 ?

Hand in a diagram

2
A T 6 5 4 2
A Q J
J 7 6

Inline hand:

2    AT6542    AQJ    J76

I had the following deal

North Deals
None Vul
North
 A J 6 3
 A K 9 6
 3
 K Q 7 3
West
 T 9 8 5
 8 4
 A J T 6 2
 A 2
East
 K 4 2
 T 5
 9 8 7 5 4
 9 8 5
South
 Q 7
 Q J 7 3 2
 K Q
 J T 6 4


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TBD: E-W example


Written by Keith Schwols in testing on Mon 14 January 2013.


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