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Bridge Tools II

We have installed the completely re-written bridge tools. I call them Bridge Tools II 🙂

There are tutorials accessible from the FOR BLOGGERS page (on the bridgeblogging.com Home page, click “FOR BLOGGERS” which you can see at the top of the window. Although I generally shy away from the term “intuitive”, which has sparked intense debate over the years in the computer community, I do think you will find them fairly intuitive to use. You can read about them (see above) or just jump right in!

As a small taste, you can insert diagrams that look like the following (stolen shamelessly from one of Linda’s posts):

 
E-W
East
N
Grue/Platni
A83
Q103
10
J87432
 
W
Gitelman/Be
Q72
AJ
J852
AK96
 
E
Moss/Del’Mo
KJ1094
976542
5
9
 
S
Cheek/Diamo
65
K8
AKQ7643
Q10
 

There are quite a few different types of diagrams you can create, plus what I think is a nifty shortcut that makes showing individual hands or pairs of hands trivial if you have entered the full deal (as above).

N
Grue/Platni
A83
Q103
10
J87432

The diagram at the right, for example, took just two mouse-clicks to create. There is also the added bonus of being able, trivially, to have text wrap around diagrams or have the diagrams centered horizontally on the page.

In any case, check the new version of the tools out and let us know what you think of them.


2 Comments

MichaelJune 4th, 2012 at 12:19

Good job John, I like the new tools.

JRGJune 4th, 2012 at 02:37

Thank you Michael. I’m hoping all our bloggers find them useful and easy to use.

I just added a “mini-tutorial” to the FOR BLOGGERS page that covers just entering a full-deal. I suspect that once a writer is comfortable creating full-deal diagrams, the rest will be like falling off a log (but hopefully more pleasant!)

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