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Gaming Outpost Discussions » Topic: Coding On This Board http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board Gaming Outpost Discussions » Topic: Coding On This Board en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:46:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/search.php Aaron Powell on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-12820 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:53:41 +0000 Aaron Powell 12820@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ John, the greater-than and less-than signs are used to set off HTML tags on the web. So the browser thinks that what they are and is not displaying them. If you tried something else ([[ and ]]) for example, you shouldn't run into the problem. JohnA1nut on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-12819 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:49:24 +0000 JohnA1nut 12819@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ Does anyone know what << >> might do in coding? I just tried to do that to mark emphasis in something I was writing, and the text vanished completely when the email was sent. (Doing Therapy) JohnA1nut on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-12216 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:03:39 +0000 JohnA1nut 12216@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ Ya know, I've noticed something. Whenever I use quotes " or ' such as in contractions, then click EDIT, it changes the quotes into some manner of code. I was wondering if everyone had that happen, or is it just my computer? Brock on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-12157 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:59:07 +0000 Brock 12157@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ Ok, thanks, that should reduce my post length and make it neater. Thanks. WilliamTWodium on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-12134 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:31:23 +0000 WilliamTWodium 12134@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ Have some examples. <blockquote>This would be a link to the {a href=http://www.principiadiscordia.com}Principia{/a} if it used the right kind of bracket (i.e., these: <>, not these: {}).</blockquote> This is the plain url: <a href="http://www.principiadiscordia.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.principiadiscordia.com</a> This is what happens when I use the right kind of bracket: <blockquote> This is a link to the <a href="http://www.principiadiscordia.com">Principia</a>. </blockquote> Note that if you ever edit your post, the forum software will insert double-quotes inside your anchor tags ("a" is for "anchor"), around the URL. Since the forum software will proceed to interpret those quotes as being part of the URL (very annoying), you need to make sure to delete those quotes before pressing the Edit Post button or your links will stop working. Brock on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-12047 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:40:57 +0000 Brock 12047@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ I don't understand what you just said Scott. I haven't really used any HTML formatting before, so How do you make a link read as something other than the link, i.e. click HERE, and here is a link somewhere? experiments: <blockquote> Dude, are you a cabbage or something in disguise?</blockquote> <ol> <li>one</li> <li>two</li> </ol> WilliamTWodium on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-11404 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:34:59 +0000 WilliamTWodium 11404@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ I think the way the board treats links has changed. Now, I get best results leaving the quotes off of the url entirely - something like < a href=url > < /a >. Nikolaj on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-9850 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:06:13 +0000 Nikolaj 9850@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ And for links to outside the forum, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around the URL. I know it was just said, but since as this is a sticky thread and on code, I thought it handy that it would be posted here too. WilliamTWodium on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-607 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:37:00 +0000 WilliamTWodium 607@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ Experimenting with <a href="http://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/htmlchars.html">ampersand codes</a>: " " Double quote & & Ampersand ("and" sign) < < Less-than > > Greater-than   un-linebreak-able space ¡ Â¡ Upside-down ! ¢ Â¢ Cent sign (c crossed out) £ Â£ Pound sign: the currency symbol not the tic-tac-toe telephone symbol, which is incorrectly called "pound". ¤ Â¤ circle with dashes at NE, SE, SW, and NW ¥ Â¥ Y crossed out ¦ Â¦ Vertical line, maybe with gap in middle § Â§ Section sign (like hurricane symbol on weather maps) ¨ Â¨ Two dots up in the air © Â© Copyright sign (C in a circle) ª Âª lower case "a" up in the air « Â« Two small less-than signs: the German open-quote ¬ Â¬ Not sign from classical logic Â "Soft" hyphen: a dash ® Â® Registered sign (R in a circle) ¯ Â¯ Macron (horizontal line up in the air) ° Â° Degree sign ± Â± Plus-or-minus sign &sup2 Â² 2 up in the air ³ Â³ 3 up in the air ´ Â´ Little dash pointing to North-East µ Âµ Micro sign, lower case Greek Mu ¶ Â¶ Paragraph sign (mirror image capital P with two legs and a black eye) · Â· Decimal Point (English style, mid-level) ¸ Â¸ Small sickle shape, low down ¹ Â¹ 1 up in the air º Âº lower case "o" up in the air » Â» Two small greater-than signs: the German close-quote ¼ Â¼ One quarter ½ Â½ One half ¾ Â¾ Three quarters ¿ Â¿ Upside-down ? × Ã— Times sign: narrow x without serifs ÷ Ã· Division sign: a colon : with a dash through it &ETH; Ã Old English voiced "Th", "D" with dash through upright ð Ã° Old Englished voiced "th": bendy "d" with dash through tail &THORN; Ãž Old English unvoiced "Th": "P" but loop has slipped down þ Ã¾ Old English unvoiced "th": smaller version of the above &AElig; Ã† "A" and "E" in a ligature, as in ENCYCLOPAEDIA æ Ã¦ "a" and "e" in a ligature, as in "encyclopaedia" &OElig; Å’ "O" and "E" in a ligature, as in MANOEUVRE &oelig; Å“ "o" and "e" in a ligature, as in "manoeuvre" Å Ã… "A" with a little circle above: Angstrom sign Ø Ã˜ "O" with diagonal line through: Empty set sign Ç Ã‡ "C" with cedilla (sickle shape) underneath ç Ã§ "c" with cedilla (sickle shape) underneath ß ÃŸ German "sz" ligature, like a lower case Greek Beta Ñ Ã‘ N with wiggle on top ñ Ã± n with wiggle on top ý í That's odd. I couldn't get the &iacute; to work in my game post; I'll go check that post again. Sorry about the grotesquely long list (although it's useful to note that pasting a character in from elsewhere works just as well as, or better than, typing the code). M. J. Young on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-544 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:52:55 +0000 M. J. Young 544@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ A warning: it appears that if you post an empty message to a thread, it will mark you as a Spammer at least on that thread, and refuse to show your posts thereafter. It is not yet certain whether the poster can fix this (e.g., by editing the post to contain something), but it appears a moderator can. --M. J. Young M. J. Young on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-293 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:27:53 +0000 M. J. Young 293@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ I actually can delete your post, as a moderator, but I'm not going to, because it's valuable to point out that posters cannot delete their own posts, only edit them, and also that if a post really needs to be deleted, you should call this to the attention of a moderator, who can do so. Thanks, Scott. Oh, and thanks Aaron for the Code explanation. --M. J. Young WilliamTWodium on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-286 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:00:41 +0000 WilliamTWodium 286@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ I had a post here, but it was incorrect and therefore useless. I can edit away the content, but I can't delete the post itself. Aaron Powell on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-285 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:45:00 +0000 Aaron Powell 285@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <blockquote>You can also use code and /code, which I've never used and am not certain of the function.</blockquote> The "code" markup is for setting off programming code. Since forum systems are programmed by, well, programmers, they tend to think people will want to talk about programming. So that's why that's there. But, yeah, it's not much use for us gamers. I'll probably pop into the templates and remove that "Put code in between <code>backticks</code>" message below the post forums so as not to confuse people. M. J. Young on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-284 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:20:01 +0000 M. J. Young 284@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting: you can post links using (bracketed) a href="full link" and then /a after whatever text you want to use. You can also just post the link as text, and the software will recognize it and turn it into a link as well as displaying it. The same works for e-mail links, which properly coded are a href="mailto:e-mail address" followed by /a, but if you just post the e-mail address the software will code it (as is evident from the fact that every "#@#" score we post for Multiverser play is turned into an e-mail address, but that's not a big deal). --M. J. Young M. J. Young on "Coding On This Board" http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/coding-on-this-board#post-283 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:38:52 +0000 M. J. Young 283@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ This board recognizes a very limited amount of HTML coding for text formatting purposes. Since several of us have had trouble determining what does and does not work, this thread is being created to list and explain anything that has been found to work. All the coding that has worked thus far has been bracket code; ampersand code also works, but I have not tested much of it. Bracket code means that the commands must be surrounded by the less than symbol (<) before and the greater than symbol (>) after the command. Ampersand code is used in HTML to produce characters which are used functionally for code in HTML, such as the less than and greater than characters and the ampersand itself, as well as non-keyboard characters such as trademark symbols, and a few other entries. The standard b, i, and u codes do not work. Instead, the older em and /em instruction will produce italic, and the strong and /strong will produce bold. Links are not underlined, but are a different color. Text may be offset/indented using blockquote and /blockquote. The system does not provide the location of the original. Offsetting may also be created with lists. An unnumbered list uses ul before and /ul after, but each item listed must be introduced with li and concluded with /li. This will create dots in front of each item; without the li /li markings, the list will have no dots and breaks will have to be made manually. Numbered lists can be created with ol and /ol, and also require the li and /li markings for each entry including the first. Usually in HTML code one can include the delimiter start= and a number within the ol command bracket (a space before start) to begin the count on a different number, and step= with a number to run the count by something other than increments of one (including using -1 to have it count backwards from the start number), but I have not had any reason to attempt any of these things here (and am surprised I remembered them, having used them so rarely anyway). You can also use code and /code, which I've never used and am not certain of the function. It will also accept br in brackets as a line break; HTML allows these to be stacked, so you can add extra line breaks. I believe that such line breaks are fed into the hard return automatically, so they're not needed, but it may be that they are required for skipping more than one line (HTML ignores carriage returns in text and uses a separate p and /p combination for paragraph breaks, which do not stack but always feed a single line between the paragraphs). The forum is set to permit one week during which to edit posts, after which they become permanent. If anyone knows more about the coding, feel free to add to this thread. I'm going to (attempt to) make it sticky for reference, so don't clutter it with other things. --M. J. Young