how to quote?

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lethe

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OK, so i know how to quote someone else using the quote tag. but a lot of the time when people quote, there is also a line in italics telling whom they quoted. how do you get that? do you just type it in and put it in italics?
 
i have another question. is there an escape character? i once tried to explicitly show a code tag within a code tag, and it didn t work at all. if i had an escape character though....
 
Originally posted by lethe
OK, so i know how to quote someone else using the quote tag. but a lot of the time when people quote, there is also a line in italics telling whom they quoted. how do you get that? do you just type it in and put it in italics?
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Do you mean like the above quote? If so, it's really, really, really easy: click the quote button on a specific reply to have it all setup for you, including the italicized Originally posted...

Not sure about escaping; but it does appear smart enough to recognize an unmatched tag:
Code: 
[CODE]
 
For escaping, I usually use either another character (like parens, or braces, < and > tend to get interpreted as HTML tags), or include a space between the [ and the text.

For example, [ color=blue ] this text shouldn't be blue [ /color ].
 
Originally posted by blb


Do you mean like the above quote? If so, it's really, really, really easy: click the quote button on a specific reply to have it all setup for you, including the italicized Originally posted...

Not sure about escaping; but it does appear smart enough to recognize an unmatched tag:
Code: 
[CODE]
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AHA! i see it!

thanks, that is exactly what i wanted. i never noticed that button, i guess
 
Originally posted by nkuvu
For escaping, I usually use either another character (like parens, or braces, < and > tend to get interpreted as HTML tags), or include a space between the [ and the text.

For example, [ color=blue ] this text shouldn't be blue [ /color ].
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let s see if this works:

Code: 
enter the your code in [ code ] tags like these [/ code ], but without the spaces
 
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