Re: Two Common Formatting Mistakes on the Forum
- Posted by useless Nov 07, 2010
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I see some repeating patterns in some of the quotes I include in my forum replies. The biggest one is the improper use of a forced line break, \\. The second is not using verbatim tags {{{ }}} around console type pastes, such as the output of a command line program.
Forced Line Break
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This should not be needed hardly ever in the forum. This is a forced line break. The forum is created in such a manner that it word wraps properly. If you want to make a new paragraph, you should put a blank line between your two paragraphs. For example:
Jeremy
Maybe it was a bug in previous editions of the host or creole or Euphoria, but i'll bet no one is wasting time by adding forced newline slashes if they haven't been needed. Or, perhaps if they were needed, someone rtfm to figure out how to get their postings properly formatted. Either way, why would anyone find their post looks like what they typed, and then rtfm, and went back and added creole newline slashes?
useless
