How to Use Quotes at GS

[Goey]

Some y'all are having trouble with quotes so I thought I would post this to show how it is done. It is really quite easy. Here's how.

That's is all there is to it.

Edited March 23, 2004 by Guest

[Raf]

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Thank you.

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[Hope R.]

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Originally posted by Rafael 1969:

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Thank you.

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There's also a little folder with a quotation mark in the bottom right hand corner of the page - if you go to the post you want to quote and click on it, it will automatically put the post in the quote form for you, and put that "originally posted by_____ in there, too.

Edited March 23, 2004 by Guest

[Tom Strange]

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Originally posted by Hope R.:

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Originally posted by Rafael 1969:

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Thank you.

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There's also a little folder with a quotation mark in the bottom right hand corner of the page - if you go to the post you want to quote and click on it, it will automatically put the post in the quote form for you, and put that "originally posted by_____ in there, too.

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why thank you HopeR! I didn't know it put the "originally posted by" stuff in there! that's neat!

[Galen]

Goey:

"Some y'all are having trouble with quotes . . ."

Is it a bad problem?

". . . so I thought I would post this to show how it is done."

That is truly very nice of you.

". . . . It is really quite easy. Here's how."

There well done.

http://personal.isot.com/goey/images/quote.gif

"That's is all there is to it."

Thank you, sir.

May I have another?

[Goey]

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Originally posted by Hope R.:

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Originally posted by Rafael 1969:

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There's also a little folder with a quotation mark in the bottom right hand corner of the page - if you go to the post you want to quote and click on it, it will automatically put the post in the quote form for you, and put that "originally posted by_____ in there, too.

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why thank you HopeR! I didn't know it put the "originally posted by" stuff in there! that's neat!

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Hey, this is fun !

[dmiller]

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there is a box at the bottom right

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Hmmmmmmm --- all I see at the bottom right is a trash barrel.

Guess my MAC is outta touch.

[dmiller]

But the

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quote thing works well

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If I go to the bar ABOVE this here letter, and click on

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[dmiller]

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I get what I want

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[dmiller]

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[excathedra]

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Some y'all...

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do i detect an accent ;)-->

i copy what i want to quote and then i click on that little blue box section above "..." and paste in between the words [ QUOTE ] and [ /QUOTE ]

most times i don't want to quote the whole post (too long)

this has truly been an exciting learning adventure. tanks you's guys :)-->

goe, how did you get the words QUOTE and QUOTE with text inside and it didn't come out a QUOTE ?

Edited March 24, 2004 by Guest

[Steve!]

Reverend mother sister excathie -

He did that by taking a picture of it and posting the picture.

[Zixar]

You can use a CODE block (like a QUOTE block, except with the word "code") to exactly duplicate characters otherwise unprintable.

Like this:

Here is some stuff that wouldn't normally print
xyz
[i]italics[/i]

[Steve!]

And there's another way - using "escape codes"

let's make a quote

[def59]

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Originally posted by Steve!:

And there's another way - using "escape codes"

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let's make a quote

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Oh i get it now

[Goey]

If I knew how to use "escape codes" that what I would have done. What the heck are "escape codes" ?

[Steve!]

The way you get a less than sign is

ampersand-lt-semicolon

& lt ; without the spaces

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For a left bracket, it is

ampersand-pound-91-semicolon

& # 91 ; without the spaces

greater than is gt instead of lt

The copyright symbol is copy instead of lt

©

The right bracket is 93 instead of 91

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[Tom Strange]

steve!, why wouldn't I just type those instead of using the codes?

[Steve!]

If you just type them instead of using the codes, then the brackets don't show up when you are trying to show how to do stuff.

If I try to show how to put a quote on the screen, and type in

and then a quote

using the actual brackets instead of the codes, here's how it comes out:

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and then a quote

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and that doesn't help anyone

[Steve!]

Or if I use the actual brackets, then I have to do it like this:

[ quote ] and then a quote [ /quote ]

and then tell you "but leave the spaces out between the brackets"

which is a lot of messing around, and not as clear

[Tom Strange]

oh... so that was for "how to show stuff" not how to do stuff? OK then....

[Steve!]

Yep

[Goey]

OK,

I get it.

The 91, 47 and 93 are also the same as the ascii character codes for [ / and ]

Text [/quote[

The # indicates that an ascii character code follows.

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Here is a trick some of you may not know.

If you hold down the alt key and then type in the ascii code on the numeric key pad, that character will be displayed -- usually. However, some of them will actually execute when you do that depending on the running app.

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Edited March 25, 2004 by Guest

[Steve!]

It's the ampersand that indicates an escape code, the # indicates that it is a number.