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Ok this is an idea I once had while on another diet forum. Its possible I just like it because I think I'm a little discalculic and would make my life easier

Lots of nationalities on here and different measurment preferences. Kg, stone and lbs, lbs.. any others I've not thought of? So maybe it is a useful idea here.

What I thought would be cool is if there was a custom tag you could use when writing weights. When you use it the server would only display the weight in the format that each user had specified. I have no idea if this would slow things down too much.

So for example: I log on one day and type "Yippee, another {7lb} gone!"
But to someone with preferences set to kg would see "Yippee, another {3.1kg} gone!"

Or alternatively the server does nothing automatically but the tag is a link of some sort which when clicked on opens up a small popup with a list of the conversions:
----
7lb
0 st 7lb
3.1kg
----

I can have a look at if this might be possible with bbcode somehow, but can't make any promises

Actually, if you install the Google toolbar it can do these conversions in the text for you. When I hover my mouse over the measurements in your post a little google tooltip pops up and gives me the KG equivalent!

Testing... 10kg


EDIT: not there yet... working on it!

Okay, got something relatively basic set up, but it might help a bit. Not quite so automated as you wanted, but you can now use:

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[weight=lb]5[/weight]
[weight=kg]10[/weight]

To give the following results:
5lb
10kg

Now if I could get everyone reporting their progress in the monthly weigh in to use this it would make my life so much easier!

Can you do one for inches/cm too?

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[measure=inches]5[/measure]
[measure=cm]10[/measure]

To give the following results:
5 inches
10 cm

So Caroline if at the first post where we are to report our progress you added these and explained how to use them, I bet at least most would do it.

I am actually clueless as to what it is doing and how to get it to do it.

Moogie, you're a genius! This is so helpful!