Shoes to use html colour codes?

[dredknight]

Is it possible Shoes to use HTML colour coding?

For example I have a file with the following text:
Adds +1 to the Hero's four primary attributes and increases initiative of all shooters in Hero's army by 10%

<color=purple>Power of Dragons (1/8)<color=white>
The hero is granted +4 in every primary skill for wearing the full Dragon armor. Half of the pieces gives +2 in every primary skill.

<color=orange>Quest<color=white>
Bring all 8 pieces of the Dragon armor to a Sacrificial Altar and receive a unique reward.

can I use the HTML syntax to make the text align and colour itself instead of doing it myself?

[IanTrudel]

Have you considered using Shoes internal markup? The manual is written in that markup language. You could also parse the colours by yourself and render it in Shoes. I did something like that and it gave birth to Shoes eBook. Shoes eBook is work in progress but that would be nice on the Facebook page #380. Same goes for screenshots of the manual.

[dredknight]

@backorder I would go with Shoes parser style any day but I am not writing the text. It is extracted as is from batch of files and just migrated to the Skillwheel. It is not that bad if it is not possible I will have to write my own HTML parser to convert the text into the style the Skillwheel app supports.

I will make something for FB :).

[IanTrudel]

Nokogiri gem is installed by default in Shoes. It will make your life easier for parsing texts and collect attributes from HTML code to apply Shoes related colouring.

[dredknight]

gosh.. I am using nokogiri extensively for XML parsing but I did not think it can be used for HTML too.
Thank you @backorder :)