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To: BroJoeK; FLT-bird
Could you offer a tutorial to, ahem, FLT-bird on how to use html formatting?

Sure. I had been thinking about doing just that.

FLT-bird, you make good points in your posts, but your posts are a bit hard to read. People could well decide to skip over them and miss the points you are making.

Some simple HTML commands would make your posts much easier to read. The commands become second nature after you use them for a while.

Each time you start a paragraph, type < followed by the letter p then follow the p with >. No spaces between those three characters. Then type your paragraph.

If you want to italicize something another person said (the best or clearest way IMO to distinguish what the other person said as opposed to what you are saying), start with the three-character paragraph starter above, then type < followed by the letter i then followed by the character >. No spaces between those three characters. That makes everything that you type following it italicized.

To end the italics, so that you can return to the normal, non-italicized letters and numbers of your reply, type < followed by /i then followed by >. No spaces between those four characters.

Using those simple paragraph and italics commands would make your posts much more readable.

There are other commands described in a 2015 HTML sandbox that explains their use (HTML Sandbox 2015). Using the simple commands in the sandbox, you can make parts of your posts bold, or underlined, or colored, or centered, or indented, etc.

It is best, of course, to preview your posts, to make sure you used the HTML commands correctly. By previewing what you have typed, you can experiment with using the HTML commands, before using them in a post.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to contact me by Freep Mail, and perhaps I can help.

584 posted on 01/19/2019 8:46:03 AM PST by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket

thx. I’ll work on getting better with the formatting.


588 posted on 01/19/2019 6:23:19 PM PST by FLT-bird
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