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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