Since the quotation is surrounded by a contrasting color, is it possible to delete the beginning " 66 mark?Buddha - Dharma - Sangha
No quote mark please
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No quote mark please
This request applies to all three of the Dharma boards. When quoting anything it looks like this:
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How would you suggest a quotation be shown when there isn't an author listed? A different-colored box with nothing else isn't clearly a quotation to my eyes. I don't remember what it was like before
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I don’t even know how to quote. Anybody know where the instructions are?
"I have made a heap of all that I have met"- Svetonious
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On the upper-right hand portion of every post there will be two icons. The second is to quote the post, the first is to report.
The whole post will then be automatically coded in as a quotation. To quote lesser portions of text you will have to do some editing, and so on. If you play around with it you will see how it works. If you click the quote icon on a post that has many quotes in it, you can see how it has been formatted by the author.
All the best,
Kevin
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Passel: an additional new feature that I love is the tiny arrow ↑ next to people's names in quotations. Clicking that will take you to the post in question. It makes it so much easier to follow threads now!
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Not much different -
quote="Monlam Tharchin" ... /quote in square brackets and no stylised quotation marks.
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For this new setup, most quotes being a previous poster, between their name being given plus the tiny arrow, that covers that. If a shastra or any buddhadharma is quoted, then the poster should add the source, and then put the quote box around the quote and source (or not). Really not too big a deal.Monlam Tharchin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 1:07 am How would you suggest a quotation be shown when there isn't an author listed? A different-colored box with nothing else isn't clearly a quotation to my eyes. I don't remember what it was like before
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Re: No quote mark please
also:
when quoting a post it used to just be the username
now its the user name and all sorts of numbers
when quoting a post it used to just be the username
now its the user name and all sorts of numbers
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Those numbers (e.g. post_id=413129 time=1509164803 user_id=6258 ) link the quote back to its source and are normally hidden from view - 'behind' the dagger icon that you can now click to go to the original.Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 5:26 am also:
when quoting a post it used to just be the username
now its the user name and all sorts of numbers
Can we all try to remember the Three Marks and not stress too much about change?
Kim
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Thanks for the tips, all!
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quoting posts
[quote=passel post_id=413275 time=1509229692 user_id=2807]
Thanks for the tips, all!
[/quote]
I'm not able to quote right now?
Thanks for the tips, all!
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I'm not able to quote right now?
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Kindly let us know what Operating system and browser you're using
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If you have more questions you can click on FAQ on top of the page in the left.
app.php/help/faq
A good way to get to know the functions is as well trial. As long as you do not click "send" nothing happens but you'll be more knowledgeable.
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AFAI understand, you are bothered because the quoting marks " look like the number 66 for you?Nicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:08 am This request applies to all three of the Dharma boards. When quoting anything it looks like this:
Since the quotation is surrounded by a contrasting color, is it possible to delete the beginning " 66 mark?Buddha - Dharma - Sangha
I don't believe an Administrator can change that. It seems to be the design of the forum's software.
Maybe you should view at these marks as very lar ge ". They are no number.
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I don’t see a problem...
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
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The 'problem' is just my fussy old proofing habit, or quirk of my mind. In older times of printed material a quoted section would have only the beginning quote mark - the 66. The 99 or close quote mark would only appear at the end of the section, even if there had been 11 paragraphs. Each paragraph would repeat the 66 at the start of the para. In more recent times each paragraph would have both a 66 & a 99 at the end.
So when we use
Everyone bored enough, including DNS? - good, consider subject dropped.
So when we use
here, the surrounding contrasting color is all that is needed. No quote marks are necessary.the quote function
Everyone bored enough, including DNS? - good, consider subject dropped.
May all seek, find & follow the Path of Buddhas.
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Nicholas Weeks wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 2:22 pm
Everyone bored enough ... ? - good, consider subject dropped.
Topic locked.