Quoting?

[cse]

How do you quote?

 

[Dave_]

cse:How do you quote?Use the "Quote" button at the bottom of the post you want to quote.

Make sure you type your text/reply after the [ / quote ] tag though,otherwise your text will appear in the box along with the post you're quoting.

 

[Andrew Everard]

You measure up, pull the pencil from behind your ear, do some rough calculations on a scrap of paper, suck your teeth a bit, add in VAT and your birthday, smack on another 20% for good luck and tell the customer.

Or you put squarebracketquote user="username"squarebracket before thing you want to quote, and then squarebracket/quotesquarebracket after it, where of course squarebracket = [, then ]

so, cse:How do you quote?

Or if you can see it on your browser, you just click the 'quote' button below the post, and it does it for you.

 

[Anonymous]

Is there a multi-quote feature here? This would save us the trouble of having to reply to each individual in separate posts.

 

[plastic penguin]

Andrew Everard:

You measure up, pull the pencil from behind your ear, do some rough calculations on a scrap of paper, suck your teeth a bit, add in VAT and your birthday, smack on another 20% for good luck and tell the customer.

Or you put squarebracketquote user="username"squarebracket before thing you want to quote, and then squarebracket/quotesquarebracket after it, where of course squarebracket = [, then ]

so, cse:How do you quote?

Or if you can see it on your browser, you just click the 'quote' button below the post, and it does it for you.

Squarebracket user="username".......

This is all double dutch to me. Can you do an "idiot proof" version, please Andrew?

 

[Andrew Everard]

This before the bit you want to quote

[ quote user="username" ]

ie if i was quoting you I would put

[ quote user="petroleumbyproductflightlessbird" ]

and then after the quoted copy you put

[ /quote ]
In both cases without any spaces between the [ and the text inside them ]

 

[John Duncan]

jtein:
Is there a multi-quote feature here? This would save us the trouble of having to reply to each individual in separate posts.

There used to be. But not any more

 

[Andrew Everard]

We had it, but John ate it with fava beans and nice chianti...

 

[Dave_]

jtein:Is there a multi-quote feature here? This would save us the trouble of having to reply to each individual in separate posts.

JohnDuncan:There used to be.Though,with a bit of cut/copy and pastage.............

Andrew Everard:

This before the bit you want to quote

[ quote user="username" ]

ie if i was quoting you I would put

[ quote user="petroleumbyproductflightlessbird" ]

and then after the quoted copy you put

[ /quote ]
In both cases without any spaces between the [ and the text inside them ].......and Mr E's instructions above,you can.

 

[John Duncan]

Andrew Everard:We had it, but John ate it with fava beans and nice chianti...

A big Amarone, actually.

 

[Andrew Everard]

"And tell me Betty, is that a cake or a meringue?"
"No, y'are no' wrang, it's a cake."

 

[John Duncan]

The better punchline to that joke is "Nah, ye're right enough". Just FYI.

 

[Andrew Everard]

I know, but the version above makes the joke a little easier for us simple-minded Sassenachs to understand.

 

[John Duncan]

But if you have to explain a joke, it's no longer a joke, is it.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaanyway. Lecter had fava beans and a big Amarone in the book, just for compelteness' sake.

 

[Andrew Everard]

JohnDuncan:and a big Amarone in the book

I once sat in a Japanese restaurant and saw one of those trying to climb out of its own shell while being cooked for the people sitting next to us. So freaked my dining companion the chef eventually put a cloche over it until it was cooked.

Or am I thinking of an abalone...?

 

[timwileman]

JohnDuncan:But if you have to explain a joke, it's no longer a joke, is it.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaanyway. Lecter had fava beans and a big Amarone in the book, just for compelteness' sake.

Amarone...yum...

 

[plastic penguin]

Andrew Everard:

This before the bit you want to quote

[ quote user="username" ]

ie if i was quoting you I would put

[ quote user="petroleumbyproductflightlessbird" ]

and then after the quoted copy you put

[ /quote ]

In both cases without any spaces between the [ and the text inside them ]

Nope, I'm going in the kitchen to throw the tea pot on the floor! Arrrghhh!!!!

 

[John Duncan]

Andrew Everard:
JohnDuncan:and a big Amarone in the book

I once sat in a Japanese restaurant and saw one of those trying to climb out of its own shell while being cooked for the people sitting next to us. So freaked my dining companion the chef eventually put a cloche over it until it was cooked.

Or am I thinking of an abalone...?

Nah, ye're right enough, it was a cloche

 

[Anonymous]

JohnDuncan:There used to be. But not any more

Awwwwww......why not?

 

[cse]

daveh75:

cse:How do you quote?Use the "Quote" button at the bottom of the post you want to quote.

Make sure you type your text/reply after the [ / quote ] tag though,otherwise your text will appear in the box along with the post you're quoting.

Cheers mate.

 

[John Duncan]

jtein:
JohnDuncan:There used to be. But not any more

Awwwwww......why not?

How long've you got?

 

[PJPro]

You can also use the blockquote html element. See my primer for more details (follow the link in my signature).

 

[Anonymous]

just a quick question ... when posting a link, some people replace the link with 1 word (like here) ... how do you do that? (I am dumb on computers and still think in DOS)

 

[John Duncan]

Type the word (like here) first, then select it, then click the 'link' button on the toolbar (the chain) - put the URL that you want to link to in the first box, and click ok - it will then turn the word you've selected into that link.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Also in PJPro's primer, IIRC...