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Quoting posts?

OldManRunner
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
Rochester, NY
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 262

Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:50 pm

OK, dumb question probably, but it seems that many of you are somehow automatically quoting portions of other posters messages in your responses. How ya doin' that?

Rickshaw
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
San Francisco, CA
Joined: 26 Nov 2004
Posts: 1157

Re: Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:06 pm

OldManRunner wrote:
OK, dumb question probably, but it seems that many of you are somehow automatically quoting portions of other posters messages in your responses. How ya doin' that?

You mean like this?

When you're typing in a reply, there's a "quote original" button above the text box, next to the buttons for bold, italic, and underline. If you're really clever, there are also other secret markup tags you can add to imbed images and stuff in your post too, but you have to pass the initiation ceremony before you get that kind of knowledge. :-)

OldManRunner
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
Rochester, NY
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 262

Re: Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:09 pm

Rickshaw wrote:
but you have to pass the initiation ceremony before you get that kind of knowledge

Thank you sir, may I have another! Smack!

Rickshaw
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
San Francisco, CA
Joined: 26 Nov 2004
Posts: 1157

Re: Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:26 pm

Here's a complete list. Everywhere I've typed curly brackets here like { }, use square brackets instead like [ ]. I can't actually use square brackets, otherwise they would be transformed into formatted text and you wouldn't know what I had originally typed. bold: {b}text{/b} italic: {i}text{/i} underline: {u}text{/u} quote format: {quote="quotee's name"}text{/quote} code (fixed width font) format: {code}text{/code} list format: {list}text{/list} imbedded image: {img}http://www.somewhere.com/something.jpg{/img} web link: {url=http://www.somewhere.com/somepage.html}click here{/url} font color: {color=colorname}text{/color}, colorname can be one of darkred, red, orange, brown, yellow, green, olive, cyan, blue, darkblue, indigo, violet, white, black font size: {size=pointsize}text{/size} Here is an annoying example. Click here for important information about long-distance telephone savings!

OldManRunner
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
Rochester, NY
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 262

Re: Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:33 pm

Ahhh, you missed my Animal House allusion!

mfox

South Orange, New Jersey
Joined: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 367

Re: Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:48 pm

Is that the complete list of HTML tags that work, or are there others? I tried [H1]text[/H1] and they obviously don't work.

Rickshaw
Runworks 2005 5M Racer
San Francisco, CA
Joined: 26 Nov 2004
Posts: 1157

Re: Quoting posts? Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:14 pm

That's the complete list. They're not actually HTML tags, but an HTML work-alike called bbcode. It's sort of an HTML-lite. If it gets used too much and becomes annoying, it can always be turned off!

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