Agreed, that makes a lot of sense. But: It's not as easy as just enabling the renderer from the Poker site as is. I've looked at several card game posts on boardgames.se, and there are a few differences between the way the poker people mark up the cards and what happens here.
On the poker site, there's pretty much only one way – {face}{suit}
. I.e. 7:clubs:
, J♦
, A♥
.
On your site, there's more to it:
Ten as ten
Examples: What is the best lead when calling next on a declined bower?, Take out double at first opportunity to double?
The poker people pretty much unanimously use a T
to denote a ten; bg.se also likes to use 10
. This isn't a big issue, since there's no 1
or 0
card, so there's no ambiguity.
Suit first
Example: What is the best lead when calling next on a declined bower?
Poker always puts the face first – Q♣
–, bg.se also uses the other way arround ♣Q
. This isn't a big issue either.
Multiple cards per suit
Example: Take out double at first opportunity to double?
On poker, it's A♦ K♦ Q♦
. Here, it's often ♦ AKQ
. This has a higher chance of ambiguity, but I don't think there are any real-life issues anyway (this seems to always be written in a suit-first manner, which is good; allowing both directions would create ambiguities).
Face wildcard
Example: Should I Use A "Negative Double" Over a Possible "Short Club" Bid And Overcall in Bridge?
♠ AJxx
meaning "Ace of spades, jack of spades, and two unspecified spades".
My plan is to render this as . Thoughts?
Bridge over troubled water
(sorry for the bad pun)
Example: Should I Use A "Negative Double" Over a Possible "Short Club" Bid And Overcall in Bridge?
This is a real issue that I'm not sure how to handle. Here are two sentences that may very commonly appear in a post about Bridge:
Obviously the first one shouldn't be rendered as a card. But there's no way for the renderer to distinguish between them. What do we make of this problem?
In closing
Please give feedback, comments, solutions, and other possible issues I haven't thought of. In particular it should be noted that most of your example tags don't have any questions with cards in them, so there may be problems with other games that I didn't consider.