Metric units

[Jorik]

Two questions:

1. Is there a way to export the Metric units of Height and Weight? HD displays them in the interface but I couldn't find the parameter which prints them.

2. Can you perform mathematical operations on the parameters at the XML/HTML export file? For instance, you'd like to add a new Characteristic that is figures from EGO+CON - I don't know enough HTML or whatever language it is written in... how do you add/subtract/multiply them?

Thanks in advance,
Roy.

[Simon]

1. If needed, I could create the appropriate tags

2. To do that, you'd need to have some JavaScript in your export template. It would be easy enough to do, really....just a JavaScript block which would contain the tag as the value of a variable, process the variable in whatever way you wanted, and then do a "document.write()" to put the result into the HTML.

[Jorik]

I guess I can try to create metric based units using the javascript you suggested (eeek).

But if you add such tags it will be helpful :)

Thanks,
Roy.

[Jorik]

Ooops. Tried to convert the HEIGHT/WEIGHT tags to metric units (even asked help from one of the developers where I work) but failed. But while trying to do it I found that the HEIGHT/WEIGHT are strings, i.e. Ht is 6' 2" and Wt is "225 lbs"
so I guess you can't really perform mathematical operations on them - or can you?

If not so I resubmit my request for Metric units in HEIGHT/WEIGHT. (or, at least, some way to extrapolate them).

Thanks very much!
Roy.

[Heroman]

I too, would like this fix. Considering everything in the book is in meters and kg including sizing powers like growth, feet and pounds is kind of out of place....

[Rigel]

It's done already. Update 1.35 introduced two new tags for export templates: <!--HEIGHT_METRIC--> and <!--WEIGHT_METRIC-->. I don't know if anyone has modified any export templates online to display the metric values, but it wouldn't be too hard to do.