Using the [QUOTE] [/QUOTE] tags effectively

[ice]

The danger with quoting historical figures is that often the quote becomes corrupted over time and the corrupt quote becomes the accepted norm.

E.g. "Alas poor Yorick! I knew him well."

No hints but marks will be awarded.


ice

 

[GreatPig]

"Alas poor Yorick! I knew him well."

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!

Amazing what you can find on the Net with a quick search

GP

 

[Julia]

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!

Amazing what you can find on the Net with a quick search

GP

GP

And I was about to be immensely impressed by your knowledge of Shakespeare! Then you ruined it by confessing to a Net search.
I would have done the same. Have never been attracted to Shakespeare.

Julia

 

[GreatPig]

Julia,

Actually I quite like some Shakespeare, but watching it acted is heaps better than reading it. And I do remember a few short quotes, but not a lot

Wayne

 

[jammin]

I'm bumping this thread as I have noticed some of the newcomers are having some difficulties in quoting others.

Thanks Joe, I was going nuts trying to present effective quotes. I have often found that I try to do things the "counter intuitive" way. (Read as "I will do it my way untill forced to read the manual")

 

[Kimosabi]

I'm bumping this thread as I have noticed some of the newcomers are having some difficulties in quoting others.

I also wanted to make one other important point. I notice that many members leave two blank lines between the end of the post they are quoting and the beginning of their own post. This is entirely unnecessary as an extra blank line is already added automatically. So when you put in two blank lines you are actually putting in three and that doesn't look right to me as there is too much space between the end of the quote and the beginning of the post. Just thought you should know, especially you Realist!

Quoted for Truth...

 

[Joe Blow]

Thanks Joe, I was going nuts trying to present effective quotes. I have often found that I try to do things the "counter intuitive" way. (Read as "I will do it my way untill forced to read the manual")

Glad the thread helped you out jammin!

One other thing I would like to add about the quote tags is to keep them tucked nice and tightly around whatever you are quoting. There is no need to leave even a space on either side. I have noticed some members leaving a few blank lines sometimes and it makes them look a little strange.

See the image below for an example:

 

[larry123]

Thanks for the quote help Joe. Just another one of your handy hints, hey

 

[Joe Blow]

Just bumping this thread for people who don't understand how the quote tags work or how to use them.

They are VERY easy to use and VERY useful.

Any questions?

 

[2BAD4U]

How do you use the multi quote buttons?

 

[doctorj]

How do you use the multi quote buttons?

Click the multiquote button on each post you wish to quote text from, then click reply as though you were normally replying to the thread. When the page loads, the post's text will be there.

 

[2BAD4U]

That hasn't worked

 

[doctorj]

Are you clicking

this button ONCE on each post you wish to quote, such that it looks like

? Then click the reply button that will look something like

 

[2BAD4U]

Yep, just did it again and still no go.

 

[Joe Blow]

Yep, just did it again and still no go.

Are you clicking

this button ONCE on each post you wish to quote, such that it looks like

? Then click the reply button that will look something like

2BAD4U - Must be a problem with your PC... is working fine here.

Used it to make this post.

 

[2BAD4U]

That hasn't worked

Yep, just did it again and still no go.

2BAD4U - Must be a problem with your PC... is working fine here.

Used it to make this post.

COOKIE monster.

 

[So_Cynical]

Click the multiquote button on each post you wish to quote text from, then click reply as though you were normally replying to the thread. When the page loads, the post's text will be there.

Well that will save me some time...i used to do it all by hand

 

[Julia]

Sorry to be stupid about this, but could you clarify as follows:

if I want to reply to, e.g. post 32 on this thread and also post 34, I should click on the quotation marks and then the Reply Quote button for post 32, and then scroll down to post 34 and repeat this?
Then the result will be both quotes appearing on the Reply form ready for my comments to be inserted?

 

[Joe Blow]

Sorry to be stupid about this, but could you clarify as follows:

if I want to reply to, e.g. post 32 on this thread and also post 34, I should click on the quotation marks and then the Reply Quote button for post 32, and then scroll down to post 34 and repeat this?
Then the result will be both quotes appearing on the Reply form ready for my comments to be inserted?

Hi Julia,

The button with the quotation marks -

- is referred to as the 'multi-quote' button.

When you wish to reply to a specific post you click the

button on the post in question and the selected post is automatically enclosed in quote tags in the reply box ready for you to respond.

The 'multi-quote' button is used when you wish to respond to more than one post at once. You can quote two or a dozen or more posts in any thread. Simply go through the thread and click the 'multi-quote' button on each post that you wish to reply to and then click on either the 'Post Reply' button a the end of the thread or the 'Quote' button on any of the posts you have selected. After you click on the 'multi-quote' button in a post it will turn orange -

- to indicate you have selected it to be quoted.

All of the posts you selected will be enclosed in their own set of quote tags and automatically inserted into the text area of your reply. All you have to do is edit out the parts of the posts that you feel are irrelevant to your response and then add your response in between each of the sets of quote tags in the reply text area.

It will look something like this:

A couple of additional hints:

• Use the "Preview Post" that is next to "Submit Reply". This will show you how your post will look when you submit it and will give you a text box below that where you can fix up anything that doesn't look right.
  
• Click on the 'multi-quote' button in each post in the order you wish to respond to them in. The forum software remembers which order you clicked the 'multi-quote' buttons in so it is probably best to click on the oldest post first and work your way forwards to the newest.

If anyone has any questions, please ask.

 

[Buddy]

Joe,
Maybe not the right thread for this question but I cant find anything on this topic anywhere else....
How do I paste pictures into a reply. If I have pictures that are in the body of an email, how do I get them into my "post"?
Buddy