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edited January 2006 in The Sandbox
Spend a few posts getting used to these forums.
  • Here I am trying to test the BBCode radio button.

    And here's a link for testing:
    www.tenra-rpg.com
    http://www.tenra-rpg.com
  • Once more with feeling:
    www.tenra-rpg.com
    http://www.tenra-rpg.com

  • Oh, and truth be told, I don't mind if people fuck around on creating new discussions in the various categories, above. Anything to get us fired up.
  • Dude! Second poster here.

    Let's try various [i]formatting[/i] tags.

    yrs--
    --Ben

  • Yeah, looks like when you want html, you have to click the html button. Markdown is the "WIKI language" where you use two asterisks on either side of something to make it bold.

  • /Markdown is awesome/

  • Is there a place we can learn the markdown code?

  • Here's the End-All-Be-All:

    http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

    Here's others that tell you how to do basic stuff:

    http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/

    And of course:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

  • Uh, OK. Here we go. So if I'm comfortable with HTML that's all good?
  • Radness!
  • works or no?

  • works awesomes

  • dudex0rs

  • Let's see if HTML
    works.
  • edited March 2006
    bq. mmkay

    *pow!* _zing!_ "go to the window":http://www.com
  • testy mctest

    linky mclink
  • Well, I'm'a try markdown.

    John Harper wrote:

    testy mctest

  • edited January 2006
    Was a test, now nothing. [quote] doesn't work in BBCode.
  • OK. It seems easy. Let's see what happens if I do ...

    this!

  • Oh, right. So links are in a href format. Um, how 'bout ... this?
  • edited January 2006
    quotes...

    herro

    Note: That neat Markdown reference linked to somewhere around here says that Markdown should also parse HTML; tests indicate that Vanilla doesn't do that. (It's a lot of fun learning how a new piece of software works)
  • edited January 2006

    What's code?
    Oh, it's that stuff! Pretty.

    Float

  • edited January 2006
    Levi, try <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/LeviK/Exchange.pdf">your link text</a>
    in HTML mode, which comes out as:
    your link text

  • Shiny. Thanks!
  • Or, if you just post a link in "Text" mode, it'll come out all underlined for you. But yeah, wtih HTML or Markdown you can do other cool things as well.

    -Andy
  • the difficulty I had before was that in one format, a slash followed by "me" gives a link to your username - and that's how my filenames start.

    /me
  • Do I roXXors with my markdown?

    Or my links?

    My knitting blog
  • Doh, guess not.

    How about... now!

    my knitting blog


  • Durn it. I can't get the markdown working. I suxxorz.
  • Wish we had a freakin' preview button. Instead:

    > This is a thing I want to help stop and, aggravatingly, I fall prey to it myself often enough to piss off people on both sides a bit, now and then.
    >
    > But I think we need to stop it, and I've been trying.
    >
    > No names. Just ideas. What else can we do?

    I hope that looks right.
  • Markdown. Select markdown first.

    This is a thing I want to help stop and, aggravatingly, I fall prey to it myself often enough to piss off people on both sides a bit, now and then.

    But I think we need to stop it, and I've been trying.

    No names. Just ideas. What else can we do?

  • Everybody else can figure out how to quote. Why can't I?
    This is a thing I want to help stop and, aggravatingly, I fall prey to it myself often enough to piss off people on both sides a bit, now and then.

    But I think we need to stop it, and I've been trying.

    No names. Just ideas. What else can we do?
  • This is just sad.

    <quote>This is a thing I want to help stop and, aggravatingly, I fall prey to it myself often enough to piss off people on both sides a bit, now and then.

    But I think we need to stop it, and I've been trying.

    No names. Just ideas. What else can we do?</quote>
  • Grrr.
    Quotey quote quote

  • edited February 2006

    This is a blockquote.

    This is the second paragraph in the blockquote. This is an H2 in a blockquote
  • Okay, y'know what ... I'm not having fun any more. This is now me beating my head against a wall because I refuse to give in.
    Quote, dammit!
  • Okay, so ... what you're saying ... is the people doing blockquotes are doing them in HTML?
    Like so?
    Good to know.
  • edited February 2006
    quote
  • Only ... that looks nothing at all like the yellow thingy I was looking at.

    What's more, your post looked one way when I wrote my last response, and now looks an entirely different way. Which is wonky. I'm glad I read it back when it was comprehensible.

    Does the mode that I'm actually posting in change how I read the next page of comments? That would be crazy.

  • edited February 2006

    Well, I'd cut & pasted something that I'd thought was Markdown. Turns out it was HTML. So, I edited it to HTML code and it came out right. I'm following the 'basic instructions' from that Markdown link up above

    -Eric

  • edited February 2006
    I'm learning markdown.
  • edited February 2006
    Okay, I'm going to keep editing this thing until I get it right. No need to keep doing multiple posts. What I want is the yellow quote boxes. I think they look keen.

    Quotey the quoting quail.

    And, of course, I immediately get it. That's the HTML code tag, folks. Do it like this:

    &lt;code>Quotey the quoting quail &lt;/code>

    Now to try to remember what I was going to say before I got wrapped around the axle with how I wanted to say it.







  • Heh, yeah. It looks like the Master Coders From Beyond are working on a "Quote Button" for the next release (it might be a little hard, as what it parses will be different based on if you're selecting Markdown, HTML, or BBCode). I'm better with HTML, so I just use the for quotes. Appartenly you can do the same in Markdown with the "single backwards apostrophe" (what is that called anyway), the one to the left of the Number One (when you hold shift and press it, you get a tilde ~). That is "Code" for Markdown. IIRC.
  • edited February 2006

    This is Markdown.
    Yep, it's that backwards apostrophe under the tilde for Markdown.

  • edited February 2006

    Like this?

    Uh ... I'm not seeing it. I put that backward quote under the tilde at the start of a line, and all I get is the backward quote under the tilde.

    EDIT: Oh, wait, I got it. You surround an area of text with those backward quotes. Got it. Thanks!

  • edited February 2006
    Like this?

    this is me quoting Quotey the quoting quail

    Edit: yay I got it.

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    • Can you get the yellow boxes without the text inside being in a typewriter font?
    • Maybe Andy could just tweak the CSS file that Vanilla uses to give a better offset to the blockquote tag.

      (do Markdown and BBCode modes use code when you designate something as a quote?)

      Andy, if you're web design-fu is more or less non-existent, and you want to pursue the change in blockquote style, I could try to put something together for you. I'm not a pro, but I know enough to (probably) make blockquotes more distinctive.
    • `tesy mctest`
    • 'testy mctest`

    • one mo time

    • woo boo woo

    • Maybe Andy could just tweak the CSS file that Vanilla uses to give a better offset to the blockquote tag.

      (do Markdown and BBCode modes use code when you designate something as a quote?)

      Andy, if you're web design-fu is more or less non-existent, and you want to pursue the change in blockquote style, I could try to put something together for you. I'm not a pro, but I know enough to (probably) make blockquotes more distinctive.


      Hey dude, I'm up for anything.

      Here's the thing, though: I don't want to set up a dev environ quite yet. So if you can install a copy of vanilla (www.getvanilla.com) and test on your side something that works for HTML and BBCode (or just HTML), then hit me with it and I'll implement it, and keep a log of changes so I can keep them working through upgrades and the like.

      I'll build a dev environ in the next month or so. In the meantime, if folks have some free time for tweaking, try the tweaks from your side, if they work bring 'em on!

      -Andy
    • Alas, I don't have any webspace available just now that is suitable for setting something like Vanilla (or even WordPress, for that matter) in.

      Maybe I'll try some user CSS extension to see what'll work. Otherwise, I guess it'll have to wait (at least for another person).
    • edited February 2006
      Tell you what, I'll hit you up in a month when I get that dev environment up. But you'll still need to download the files and look through them even on your side to see how everything fits together (ex: It took me a bit to realize that EVERY PIECE OF TEXT on this entire forum is pulled from one single flat php file (English.php)). Getting used to where .css is located and how it works will help when it comes time to throw some code.

      Edit: I meant every single piece of text on the forums: Forum title, tab labels ("Discussions" "Categories", etc), Introductory page, That End User License Agremement, all those words on the left bar, etc. The posts themselves are stored securely in MySQL.

      -Andy
    • D'oh!

      I've been stupid. Playing with the css file doesn't require a complete install of Vanilla.

      I'll play around a bit and get back to you.
    • edited February 2006

      Quotin?

      bq. more

    • Like this:

      Like this.
    • edited February 2006

      like this?

      Edit: like how?

      EditEdit: Ahh, like that.

    • This is a test.

      Test

      Test

      /Test/

    • ndpndp
      edited February 2006
      can i quote too?

      bold quote?
    • edited February 2006

      test
      test
      test
      /test/

      wow emphasis scales ****nicely**** *****in***** ******Markdown******

    • edited February 2006

      test
      test

      test
      test

    • yep, another test
    • edited February 2006
      Everybody says:
      'Andy's cool.'

      That didn't work, dammit.

      Eff this markdown shit.

      <quote>Andy's cool.</quote>
    • edited February 2006

      I'll never figure this html stuff out!

      Markdown works like this or this or this but not *this*

      HTML works like this

    • edited February 2006
      Nevermind
    • edited February 2006

      So I'm wondering how exactly quoting works in Markdown. I think this might be it. Then again, it might not. Therefore, a test is called for! But perhaps I have already solved my dilemma...

      EDIT: Huh. It kinda worked. How do you get it all yellow?

    • With the new tweak to the forum's CSS file, this text should have a thick grey stripe running laong its left edge. Here's hoping that it works properly.
    • This will make the text all yellow
      This will put a grey bar-thing to the left of your quote
    • And this is the aboev, just with HTML flagged:
      This will make the text all yellow
      This will put a grey bar-thing to the left of your quote
    • This will make the text all yellow
      This will put a grey bar-thing to the left of your quote
      A quick note that code also renders your text in a proportional (typewriter-like) font.
    • edited February 2006
      Huh. The grey bar doesn't show up on Safari, apparently; just the indent.

      Ergh. Just tried to view it with Explorer. So fucking screwed up that I won't even bother trying to explain it.

      SMILE! :)
    • Jeph: Also, I realized to get the grey bar to show up I had to quit Mozilla, open it back up, sign in back here to get it to use the updated (uncached) css file.

      -Andy
    • markdown quotes are just made by putting ` on the side of your quote.

    • edited February 2006
      Hey lookit this
    • edited February 2006

      testing markdown quotes

    • *markdown emphasis in quotes*

    • markdown emphasis in quotes

    • `there has got to be a better way to do quotes than codeblocks, people`
    • furthermore, your statement that...

      testing if this works in markdown.

    • edited February 2006

      Oh, nice.

      Everyone: You can use > to quote in markdown, pretty much the same way that you use it in e-mail. For an example:

      > Spend a few posts getting used to these forums.

      it will come out as

      Spend a few posts getting used to these forums.

      yrs--
      --Ben

    • edited February 2006

      emphasis
      strong emphasis
      code
      * An item in a bulleted (unordered) list
      * Another item in a bulleted list

      First-level heading

      Fourth-level heading

      This text will be enclosed in an HTML blockquote element.

      1. An item in an enumerated (ordered) list
      2. Another item in an enumerated list
      nerdnyc

    • Cool Stuff.

      Let's see if that works for me, too.
    • edited February 2006
      Catamaran

      How come
      < strong >
      doesn't work?
    • edited February 2006
      bold, which is depreciated, works.

      strong, which is correct, doesn't.

      Huh. I just assumed bold didn't work like strong wasn't working.
    • Yeah, I switched to bold and it worked, which is puzzling.

      PUZZLINGLY DEPRECATED!

      and < em > works, go figure.
    • edited February 2006
      bad
      this quote is blocked
      oldly go
    • edited February 2006
      this is a test of vanilla html
      does cite work?

      how about q? or dfn?

    • the forum is telling you not to use bold text, silly.

    • My test:
      Does this insert the
      linebreaks?
      Or is it more like pure html?
      Test Test Super Test
      Mi me me mi
    • Heh,

      I still haven't figured out how to do a quote yet. What's the code for that?

      -Troy
    • edited March 2006
      _just testing_

      h2. the new textile

      bq. combed llama wool

      will this show up "normally?"

      *bold like*

      **bold and italic like**

      * Counting
      ** Subhead
      *** Subsubhead
      *** Number 2
      ** Aha!
      * Go go go
      * Yay
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