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.
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
herro
<a href="http://members.shaw.ca/LeviK/Exchange.pdf">your link text</a>
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?
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 a blockquote.
This is the second paragraph in the blockquote. This is an H2 in a blockquote
Quote, dammit!
Like so?Good to know.
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.
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
Quotey the quoting quail.
<code>Quotey the quoting quail </code>
This is Markdown
.
Yep, it's that backwards apostrophe under the tilde for Markdown.
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!
this is me quoting Quotey the quoting quail
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Don't mind me, just testing Markdown a bit.
quoting myself
or is this qouting?
... and now for some italicized and bold (I hope)
and a link! www.story-games.com
Do * open tags_ carry over to the next post?
Blah blah blah
Blah blah
Bling
Blah
Etc.
PSA For Sandbox Users
You can click the "Block Comment" link in the right of a post's heading to look at its raw markup. It is useful!
Hmmm
At least quoting works...
EDIT: Except when it doesn't. But I think I get it now.
Does this mean Sink is not working?
Hmm, at first I though that maybe it only worked inside the individual category (As opposed to the "All categories") view, but seems it doesn't work at all. Strange.
M
This is the Code button.
Does this do it?-T
Comments
(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.
'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
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).
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
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.
Quotin?
bq. more
Like this.
like this?
Edit: like how?
EditEdit: Ahh, like that.
This is a test.
Test
Test
/Test/
can i quote too?
bold quote?
test
test
test
/test/
wow emphasis scales ****nicely**** *****in***** ******Markdown******
test
test
test
test
'Andy's cool.'
That didn't work, dammit.
Eff this markdown shit.
<quote>Andy's cool.</quote>
I'll never figure this html stuff out!
Markdown works like this
or this orthis
but not*this*
HTML works like this
EDIT: Huh. It kinda worked. How do you get it all yellow?
This will put a grey bar-thing to the left of your quote
This will make the text all yellow
Ergh. Just tried to view it with Explorer. So fucking screwed up that I won't even bother trying to explain it.
SMILE! :)
-Andy
markdown quotes
are just made by putting ` on the side of your quote.Hey lookit this
testing markdown quotes
*markdown emphasis in quotes*
markdown emphasis in quotes
testing if this works in markdown.
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
yrs--
--Ben
emphasis
strong emphasis
code
* An item in a bulleted (unordered) list
* Another item in a bulleted list
First-level heading
Fourth-level heading
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.
How come doesn't work?
strong, which is correct, doesn't.
Huh. I just assumed bold didn't work like strong wasn't working.
PUZZLINGLY DEPRECATED!
and < em > works, go figure.
how about
? or dfn?the forum is telling you not to use bold text, silly.
Hmmmm
Swansong
Tarot
Mi me me mi
I still haven't figured out how to do a quote yet. What's the code for that?
-Troy
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