Posted on 04/09/2005 11:51:09 AM PDT by BJungNan
Lately there seems to be some slippage of what has been for years the common style for replying to posts. In the interest of FR Stylebook maintenance, here is what has been proper style on replying to comments in a thread.
The common form for replies is as follows:
1. Quote the person you are replying to with italics (if you are replying to someone specifically and what they said).
2. Seperate with a paragraph mark.
3. Show your reply in regular text
Example:
Even after five years (or so) of reading FR, I still find myself amazed at the quality of discussion and the wealth of information, especially posts from the many experts that are members of FR. Who would have thought we would have experts in typefonts of all things (to Dan Rather's chagrin).
You sure have that right BJungNan. Jim and FR are the greatest!
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Placing the comments of the person you are replying to in quote marks or in Bold may get the job done, but really it is not common style. At least not to my FR eyes. Those using quotes perhaps don't know html but it is really easy. FR is where many people learned html. Somewhere on here is an html sandbox (perhaps someone can offer up that link).
That's hilarious! Oh, and I tried to italize the jpeg, but it doesn't seem to work!
;-)
The "To 226" links to the post being replied to. The "242" links to the post itself. Although this may not seem useful, it provides an easy way of generating a link to a post like this.
I don't recall such things as music etc. threads unclosed.
But I usually have my speakers off, anyway.
Slippage, thy name is bannie.
You want something like this:
Would you be willing to spell out in detail how to do the square, triangle, circle bulletted html thingy's?
Please?
Italicizing jpgs is a bit harder than ordinary text, but not totally impossible:
| Marv, I'm looking here at a post on FR that looks like a duplicate of a post from two days ago. I've emailed you the URL. Confirm. Roger that. I will post the "Already Been Posted" notice on this one then. That is, unless you want to this time. | |
Purple on the other hand is far less aggressive, it can still be used to correct someone, but is far less imposing of a color.
Smartaleck!!
But thanks for the tip!
Clever, but it's not a true <hr>, you used <table> to do that:)
Is there a way to do a colored hr?
Did you examine the HTML? It's a bit tricky, and unfortunately ends up being dependent upon users to have their browser font settings close to what is expected, but it can nonetheless be useful for adjusting the captions on pictures.
On a related note, another alterative to 'italicizing' pictures is to resize them. Note that resizing a picture using the image properties will not affect loading speed (and should thus not be used as an alternative to generating real thumbnails), but if one is 'quoting' a picture that has already appeared on a thread, load time is not a factor.
To avoid using excessive vertical space, it can be useful to attach an 'align' property to the image. Most commonly, align=right as in this example. Notice that the text will conveniently wrap around the picture as appropriate.
The image align and table align properties can be very useful, although strange things can happen if you use too many of them in overly-close proximity. I don't know of any browsers that will crash if such things are attempted, but the result can sometimes end up being an indecipherable mess. Nonetheless, the properties can allow for pages that automatically adjust their formatting based upon screen size. Check out A Bird in a Barren Cage and play around with screen dimensions and font size. You'll notice the page can take on a few different arrangements even though it uses no scripting.
Go to View, Page Source, Scroll down to Post 240 and you will see the HTML line for the:
* One can learn alot about HTML by reading the Page Source.
Please?
Certainly!
<UL>
<LI TYPE=square> Square
<LI TYPE=circle> Circle
<LI TYPE=disc> Disc
</UL>
Indeed, though mine was centered.
Is there a way to do a colored hr?
Why does it matter? Tables are more versatile. Anything that can be done with an embedded .JPG can be done with an embedded table, although representing a 640x480 picture entirely in HTML is not apt to make you very popular with dial-up users. Horizontal bar charts can easily be rendered with tables:
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