1. double-dash (strikethrough) not working
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Oct 13, 2009
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Isn't a double-dash supposed to mark a strikethrough? or delete? whatever the standard is today...
this should be struckthrough
<s>this could be struckthrough</s>
<del>this might be struckthrough</del>
2. Re: double-dash (strikethrough) not working
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 13, 2009
- 1130 views
this should be struckthrough
It has been explicitly disallowed by the forum software. I don't know why.
case StrikeText then lHTMLText = "--" & pParms[1] case InsertText then lHTMLText = "++" & pParms[1]
3. Re: double-dash (strikethrough) not working
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Oct 14, 2009
- 1089 views
this should be struckthrough
It has been explicitly disallowed by the forum software. I don't know why.
case StrikeText then lHTMLText = "--" & pParms[1] case InsertText then lHTMLText = "++" & pParms[1]
I don't know why either 
Jeremy
4. Re: double-dash (strikethrough) not working
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 14, 2009
- 1071 views
this should be struckthrough
It has been explicitly disallowed by the forum software. I don't know why.
case StrikeText then lHTMLText = "--" & pParms[1] case InsertText then lHTMLText = "++" & pParms[1]
I don't know why either
Jeremy
- hides tail between legs*
- cough* svn blame *cough*
Maybe because the two dashes are used to represent comments in euphoria code? So this is done to make it easier to copy and paste eu code.
Doesn't explain the two plus signs though.
5. Re: double-dash (strikethrough) not working
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 14, 2009
- 1073 views
Maybe because the two dashes are used to represent comments in euphoria code? So this is done to make it easier to copy and paste eu code.
However, creole markup is ignored inside <eucode> tags. If the author forgets to use the code tag, it will show up during preview, and anyway, it can be edited to make it pretty again.
6. Re: double-dash (strikethrough) not working
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 14, 2009
- 1083 views
Maybe because the two dashes are used to represent comments in euphoria code? So this is done to make it easier to copy and paste eu code.
However, creole markup is ignored inside <eucode> tags. If the author forgets to use the code tag, it will show up during preview, and anyway, it can be edited to make it pretty again.
Edit is a relatively recent feature of the forum though.
So this was probably an old, and now obsolete, hack to make the forum slightly more user friendly.
