Mark-up tags in Forum posts

[Steven Sweeney]

Joy,

At least one of the times that Cynthia explained this, I happened to be studying Mandarin Chinese -- and I thought the Mandarin was easier to understand.

I still very often preview my own posts and see that an errant or omitted mark-up tag has produced something I didn't intend. The "fun" part of seeing how the tags work is that you can go back in and fix it yourself. Also, if you decide to add some feature to something you've already posted, such as putting a block of text in bold type, you can just sneak into the Edit mode and type in the tags before and after the text and, voila!

But don't give it another thought if it's all Greek to you, and certainly don't let it make you feel shy about posting. There are Greek geek squads on the Forum, ready to assist.

As I mentioned, explaining it online makes it seem harder than it is, because you can't actually show both the beginning and ending tags you're talking about -- or else the software will put all the intervening text into bold type or italics or whatever and make the tags disappear. It's like pulling an invisible rabbit out of a hat -- even if you really did it, it would be hard to say exactly what just happened. (This trick is to use a black light, under which the aura of the rabbit can be seen.)

[Cynthia Daniel]

Basically, all markup commands are in brackets and each one has a starting and ending bracketd comman. I'll demonstrate with spaces just inside the opening and closing bracket so it will display here, but realize the spaces won't/shouldn't be there in real live.

Here is the bold command. You can type it in, or you can click the little "B" button above where you type your post.

[ b ] Now is the time...[ /b ]

What do you mean Joy?? I saw you use the underline already!

[Joy Thomas]

Originally Posted by Cynthia Daniel

What do you mean Joy?? I saw you use the underline already!

True... true...but I still don't know how to use those little icons! Is that what Steven means about pulling rabbits out of hats?

Joy Thomas
www.portraitartist.com/thomas

[Joy Thomas]

Originally Posted by Steven Sweeney

Joy,

At least one of the times that Cynthia explained this, I happened to be studying Mandarin Chinese -- and I thought the Mandarin was easier to understand.

But don't give it another thought if it's all Greek to you, and certainly don't let it make you feel shy about posting. There are Greek geek squads on the Forum, ready to assist.

Well...okay...since you put it that way, I guess I'm free to type away then!

Joy Thomas
www.portraitartist.com/thomas