Sure to be a stupid question.

[alexandraaah]

Okay, I've looked in FAQ. I'm not the most computer competent. How do you quote a portion of a person's post in your response? What if you are answering questions and want to break it into sections? I find when I've tried to do this that I end up in bold also or it's all not in bold, therefore unable to distinguish, without really close inspection, who said what.

Help?

 

[LukkyKnight]

hit the quote button

and if you look you will see that it is "surrounded" by a pair of "quote" tags in square brackets, one to start it and another to end it with a "/" in it. You can type those in by hand, too.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Okay, I've looked in FAQ. I'm not the most computer competent. How do you quote a portion of a person's post in your response? What if you are answering questions and want to break it into sections? I find when I've tried to do this that I end up in bold also or it's all not in bold, therefore unable to distinguish, without really close inspection, who said what.

Help?

hit the quote buttonand edit out what you don't want to quote

or

highlight and copy what you do what to quote, hit new reply type: {quote} withthe [] brackets and paste what you copied and then type {/quote} with the [] brackets

or

high light and copy what you want to quote, hit the new reply pres the quote button above the message block paste what you want then hi the x button beside close all tags

 

[Beebeeblue]

Okay, I've looked in FAQ. I'm not the most computer competent. How do you quote a portion of a person's post in your response? What if you are answering questions and want to break it into sections? I find when I've tried to do this that I end up in bold also or it's all not in bold, therefore unable to distinguish, without really close inspection, who said what.

Help?

See that cute little quote button on the bottom right of each post???

There ya go!

 

[Shockdoctor]

I'm surprised no one has answered this yet. What I do is highlight the portion I want to quote, press CTRL+C to copy it into memory, press the quote button, press CTRL+V to paste the section into the quote window that pops up, repeat for each section you want. I am sure there is an easier way to do this and hopefully someone better versed in how to do this will answer. In any case, I hope that helps you out.

 

[Shockdoctor]

Everyone answered while I was typing! Now I just feel silly.

 

[alexandraaah]

Re: Re: Sure to be a stupid question.

See that cute little quote button on the bottom right of each post???

There ya go!

I know how to do this (above)....just can't figure out if I want to only quote some of a post, or if I want to divide the quote into sections.......

 

[LukkyKnight]

Re: Re: Re: Sure to be a stupid question.

I know how to do this (above)....just can't figure out if I want to only quote some of a post, or if I want to divide the quote into sections....... [/B]

When you post again, hit quote, and look at the stuff in the square brackets... then PRETEND the angle brackets here are square (if I use square ones they don't show up, they get interpreted.)

<QUOTE>first bit of quote here</QUOTE>stuff you want to use as a response to part one here<QUOTE>second quote segement here</QUOTE>second response here will end up looking like what follows if you switch the angle-brackets back to square...

first bit of quote here

stuff you want to use as a response to part one here

second quote segement here

second response here will end up looking like what follows if you switch the angle-brackets back to square...

 

[alexandraaah]

I'm surprised no one has answered this yet. What I do is highlight the portion I want to quote, press CTRL+C to copy it into memory, press the quote button, press CTRL+V to paste the section into the quote window that pops up, repeat for each section you want. I am sure there is an easier way to do this and hopefully someone better versed in how to do this will answer. In any case, I hope that helps you out.

okay, that makes sense, but how do you go back and forth from the post you're quoting to your post?

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Re: Re: Re: Sure to be a stupid question.

I know how to do this (above)....just can't figure out if I want to only quote some of a post, or if I want to divide the quote into sections.......

divided post quoting would be something like:


{quote}
Something I want to quote
{/quote}

My smart alecky comment

{quote}
Something else I want to quote
{/quote}

Another smart mouthed answer

{quote}
Yet something more I want to quote
{/quote}

My final smart ased analysis

just change {} with []

 

[alexandraaah]

at this point all i can say is that this is why social work is my chosen profession. i still have to write social assessments by hand-that's a drag but this honestly is confusing me.

 

[Weird Harold]

{QUOTE]{i]Originally posted by alexandraaah {/i]
{B]How do you quote a portion of a person's post in your response? {/B]{/QUOTE]

You select and delete the irrelvant protions of the post you're quoting, being carefull not to destroy the syntax of the vB tags that format it as a quote.

{QUOTE]{i]Originally posted by alexandraaah {/i]
{B]What if you are answering questions and want to break it into sections? {/B]{/QUOTE]

You'll notice that I've added some text starting with curly braces around what I've quoted from your post. The same text with square brackets in place of the curly braces is the vB formatting code to make it show up as a quote.

{QUOTE]{i]Originally posted by alexandraaah {/i]
{B]I find when I've tried to do this that I end up in bold also or it's all not in bold, therefore unable to distinguish, without really close inspection, who said what.{/B]{/QUOTE]

Starting from the beginning of thislast section, I'll translate.

Begin quote formatting.
Begin Italics
"Originally posted by..."
End Italics
End of line (Not a visible character)
Begin Bold Type
"I find when I ..."
End bold type
End quote formatting.

If you need more information on the formatting tags and how they're used, check the help link next to "vB Code" near the top left of the text box on the "Newreply.php" form. http://www.literotica.com/forum/misc.php?action=bbcode#buttons

 

[alexandraaah]

Re: Re: Sure to be a stupid question.

Starting from the beginning of thislast section, I'll translate.

Begin quote formatting.
Begin Italics
"Originally posted by..."
End Italics
End of line (Not a visible character)
Begin Bold Type
"I find when I ..."
End bold type
End quote formatting.

If you need more information on the formatting tags and how they're used, check the help link next to "vB Code" near the top left of the text box on the "Newreply.php" form. http://www.literotica.com/forum/misc.php?action=bbcode#buttons

Weird Harold,
thank you for accessing the minute part of my brain that gets this. Very concrete; I think it may have worked. If not, thanks for the link.
Alex

 

[LukkyKnight]

Making sense yet?

Or do you want it in email with examples?

Can't readily do examples here, since they get translated by the board, ya know?

 

[alexandraaah]

Re: Making sense yet?

Or do you want it in email with examples?

Can't readily do examples here, since they get translated by the board, ya know?

an email example would be lovely. all the help i can get.
let me know how your party was while you're at it!

 

[LukkyKnight]

to borrow a phrase

the example's in the mail. http://www.minorannoyance.net/~spin/Smilies/contrib/sarge/CrossEye_anim.gif

 

[freakygirl]

I'm surprised no one has answered this yet. What I do is highlight the portion I want to quote, press CTRL+C to copy it into memory, press the quote button, press CTRL+V to paste the section into the quote window that pops up, repeat for each section you want. I am sure there is an easier way to do this and hopefully someone better versed in how to do this will answer. In any case, I hope that helps you out.

Wow, that's an awful lot of extra work.

why not just use your mouse? Left click.. hold down the button.. highlight the area you want to quote.. right click.. go to "copy" .. then go back to your screen... right click again...go to "paste"..

way easier than CTL+C and CTL+V



*ignore this if you are using a webtv

 

[freakygirl]

Re: to borrow a phrase

the example's in the mail. http://www.minorannoyance.net/~spin/Smilies/contrib/sarge/CrossEye_anim.gif

hey.. were did you get that purple cross eyed dude?

i don't see him as one of my choices..

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: Making sense yet?

all the help i can get.

Think of anything in square brackets as a switch. [...] is an ON switch, and [/...] is an OFF switch. Almost all of the formatting codes need to be turned off as well as on.

As long as there is no "[/b]" (endbold) command, I can add as many "" (beginbold) commands as I want, and I can't get bold text.

 

[alexandraaah]

ok lukky

This is one silly way to teach a thing, when
you can't use examples in the board itself

Why can't you use examples in the board, LK?

See, when you actually type in the full sets of
square brackets, the software that runs the lit forums
interprets them to mean things such as "begin quote
style formatting here" or "italicize everything
from here until the end-italics tag begins"
which makes inserting an example nearly
impossible...

So you mean that the b and /b in square brackets
turned on the bold, then off again? and the same for
italics, but the quote "tags" as you called them do a
little more, like indenting and adding the lines?

That's right, alexandraaah!

 

[alexandraaah]

you kickass lukky.
thanks for the tutorial.
nice.

 

[LukkyKnight]

by jove

I think she's got it...

 

[Shockdoctor]

Originally posted by Freakygurl32:
Wow, that's an awful lot of extra work. why not just use your mouse?

I don't like to use the mouse. I find it faster to use CTRL+C and CTRL+V. But that's just me. Some people find the mouse faster. Just depends on how good of a typist you are I guess.

 

[freakygirl]

I don't like to use the mouse. I find it faster to use CTRL+C and CTRL+V. But that's just me. Some people find the mouse faster. Just depends on how good of a typist you are I guess.

ahhh makes sense.. I'm a fast typist (120+ words a minute).

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Re: to borrow a phrase

hey.. were did you get that purple cross eyed dude?

i don't see him as one of my choices..

http://www.minorannoyance.net/~spin/Smilies/contrib/sarge/CrossEye_anim.gif

When followed by [/img] and preceded by produces a crosseyed smilie.