McFormatter

About the mod

McFormatter is a lightweight Minecraft chat formatter plugin for Fabric servers.
It aims to allow users to use markdown-style formatting in Minecraft chat messages.

Current Features

• Bold text
  • Surround bolded text with two asterixes, *like this*
• Italicised text
  • Surround text to be italicised with a single asterix on each side, *like this*.
• Hyperlinks
  • Hyperlinks can created by surrounding the text of the link with square brackets, then surrounding the URL with parentheses, [like this](http://example.com/\)
• Basic links
  • If you want some text to be interpreted as a link, surround it with angle brackets
  • i.e. <http://example.com/\>
• Escaping
  • Players can escape formatting characters by using a backslash (\) before the character they would like to escape.

Planned Features

• Emojis
  • In future, players will be able to use Unicode emojis in a similar way to how emojis are used in applications like Discord
  • i.e. :smile: will be able to be used to display a smiling emoji
• Underlining
  • Future updates will allow players to underline text by surrounding the text with two underscores on each side.
• Permissions
  • I realise that sending links, and masking links, can be a large risk to a server's security. This is why, in future, I plan to add ways to disable/enable types of formatting for different players. This will likely require some permissions library.