geordief Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Another forum I use has a 24 hours time limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapatos Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 It gets very confusing when people edit out their mistakes after 10 people have already discussed the mistakes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJW Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 How do I create multiple quotes from the same post? And how do I quote within a quote? More generally, how do I view the codes within a post (rather than a WYSIWYG view of a post)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, KJW said: How do I create multiple quotes from the same post? And how do I quote within a quote? You can break up a quote by putting the cursor where you want the break and hitting return to create a blank line, and putting the cursor on the blank line and hitting return. Usually (not always) it breaks the quote box into two. If it doesn’t, try putting cursor on the first blank line and hit return again. (I have done that here) 6 minutes ago, KJW said: More generally, how do I view the codes within a post (rather than a WYSIWYG view of a post)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJW Posted November 17, 2023 Share Posted November 17, 2023 When I quote a post that quotes a post, I do not get the quote within the quote, only what the poster of the post I quoted wrote. But I've seen other people have quotes within quotes. How? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVat Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I accidentally clicked on the oldest page of the quantum theory subforum, p. 85. https://www.scienceforums.net/forum/9-quantum-theory/page/85/ Why are there all these threads, with zero posts, and the threads are dated Dec. 31, 1969?? Fascinating. Seems "Guest" was quite prolific 54 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 3 hours ago, TheVat said: I accidentally clicked on the oldest page of the quantum theory subforum, p. 85. https://www.scienceforums.net/forum/9-quantum-theory/page/85/ Why are there all these threads, with zero posts, and the threads are dated Dec. 31, 1969?? Fascinating. Seems "Guest" was quite prolific 54 years ago. Date data that’s blank or otherwise corrupted defaults to 12/31/69 in UNIX-based systems, so that’s probably what’s going on there. I think in early versions of the board software you could post without registering (and the post was attributed to “guest”), but since that can lead to problems, it was changed. That was before my time, so I never took a stab at answering ones I might have a clue about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJW Posted May 24 Share Posted May 24 What BBCode do I use to set the size of the font? Also, what BBCode do I use to set the colour of the font? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 3 hours ago, KJW said: What BBCode do I use to set the size of the font? Also, what BBCode do I use to set the colour of the font? These are set in the editor; I think we lost the BBCode editing capability at least one update ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJW Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 12 hours ago, swansont said: These are set in the editor; I think we lost the BBCode editing capability at least one update ago. I would like to create the text of posts using a simple external text editor, with all the desired markup in the text file, without needing to edit the text within the forum editor. I can use standard BBCode in the text file to create bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, subscript, and superscript, but I've not been able to find the correct BBCode for font size (I did not attempt to find the correct BBCode for font colour even though I asked about that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 3 hours ago, KJW said: I would like to create the text of posts using a simple external text editor, with all the desired markup in the text file, without needing to edit the text within the forum editor. I can use standard BBCode in the text file to create bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, subscript, and superscript, but I've not been able to find the correct BBCode for font size (I did not attempt to find the correct BBCode for font colour even though I asked about that). And AFAIK that information is no longer available in the forum editor, so it’s not a forum question. It’s a BBcode question, suitable for a search engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJW Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 16 hours ago, swansont said: And AFAIK that information is no longer available in the forum editor, so it’s not a forum question. It’s a BBcode question, suitable for a search engine. I have done a Google search. It would seem that BBCode standards are not set in stone and that this is an implementation issue, making it a forum issue. Anyway, by testing BBCodes in The Sandbox, I have succeeded in finding a number of functioning BBCodes, including color, and even font (which does not appear to be in the forum editor), but not size, even though the "size" tag is recognised by the forum software (tags which are recognised, even if they don't function, are removed from display in the post). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 3 hours ago, KJW said: I have done a Google search. It would seem that BBCode standards are not set in stone and that this is an implementation issue, making it a forum issue. Anyway, by testing BBCodes in The Sandbox, I have succeeded in finding a number of functioning BBCodes, including color, and even font (which does not appear to be in the forum editor), but not size, even though the "size" tag is recognised by the forum software (tags which are recognised, even if they don't function, are removed from display in the post). So you found your answer. It’s the size tag. size=number This text is very small This text is big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJW Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 6 minutes ago, swansont said: So you found your answer. It’s the size tag. size=number This text is very small This text is big No, the size tag didn't work when I tested it in The Sandbox. But I'll test it here: This is hopefully big This is hopefully small Ok, now we are getting somewhere: This is 1 This is 2 This is 3 This is 4 This is 5 This is 6 This is 7 This is 8 My mistake was evidently my choice of number, assuming it to follow the numbering in this forum's editor, rather than the numbering I've seen in another forum. Thank you for your assistance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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