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   SpodoCommodo
   

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   Would someone please give some examples showing how to use markups in postings in these forums.

   I've had a few unsuccessful attempts and am clearly too thick to work out the required format from the info that's given below the posting text edit window. I'm used to the type of markups used in e.g. IMDB where text would result in the text being in bold.

   Thanks in advance (hope I haven't missed an explanation somewhere within the forums).

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   copmom
   

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   Spodo.. as it shows below < > and then what you want inserted before and after the block of words .. in other words, I did < strong> without the space BEFORE the word strong and again after < strong> I did it with a space so it would show what I'm talking about.. don't put a space after the <

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   SpodoCommodo
   

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   thanks

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   

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   also:

   1) em<s/trong> with < & > and to close </ & > will give italics

   2)
   

   Blockquote using the same principle above gives a blocked quote (lol)

   3)

   ul gives an indented line

   4) to hide a url but enable you to link to the url with just a few words:

   < a href = " add your url here " > whatever you want to name the link such as download here, read this HERE etc < > with /a placed in between the <> (there should be no spaces between any of the coding)

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   BuBBy
   

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   Posted a year ago... and it still works :)

   http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/793

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   delenn13
   

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   Mr B. posted the short version. I found the fun and hijacked many times testing version started 11 months ago. :) It is a good read between all the shenanigans. HTML-How to Make Lasagna

   And for the other newbies...(nothing wrong with that...we were all new at one time). How to Copy Paste How to Post/Copy a Link

   Thanks to Mangoette(LeKanaw) I am now using Firefox so I appreciate the Colt addon that Mr. B suggested for links.

   The arthritis in both of my hands is getting worse so I don't post like I used to. But I got Dragon Naturally Speaking for Christmas so I am in the process of trying to tame/train the beast right now with help from the Runemeister. :) Any one else that has it has any suggestions..I would appreciate it. It is having a field day with my Southern Cracker(small town in Florida), New York(from living in West Palm Beach), and Canuck(now living in The Great White North) accents.

   See I can still hijack a thread without even trying...

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   SpodoCommodo
   

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   Thanks to you all.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   RunesageMagik
   

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   The arthritis in both of my hands is getting worse so I don't post like I used to. But I got Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Christmas so I am in the process of trying to tame/train the beast right now with help from the room Meister. :-) Anyone else that has it has any suggestions... I would appreciate it. It is having a field day with my Southern Cracker (small town in Florida), New York (from living in West Palm Beach), and cannot (now living in the Great White North) accents.

   Delenn13, aside from a few mouse clicks, I quickly dictated the above paragraph directly from your post (along with this aside) and as you can see, Dragon NaturallySpeaking did a fairly good job. Only stumbled on your member alias, your nickname for me and the word Canuck, easily corrected with a few commands. I will admit it probably helped that I'd just taken allergy medicine so my nasally voice wasn't a problem. FWIW, I also use it to cut-and-paste my name and password onto the input boxes.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   

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   Sorry to hear that runesage. Hopefully Dragon Naturally speaking will help lots once you've trained it. :)

   Take care

   Regards

   Whiterabbit

   Thanks for reminding me about your post from last year BuBBy.

   Posted 9 months ago #
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    Buzz
    

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    Good advise, but most all the more advanced
    boards have posting menus for all this so ya
    don't have to do all of this stuff manually.
    In fact, this is the only board I ever seen
    where ya have to do it yourself with the
    exception of maybe the old style of the
    yahoo message forums.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    RunesageMagik
    

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    Wabbit, didn't mean to hijack Delenn's illness! Since she mentioned me, on a lark I went and transcribed one paragraph from HER message. She's got the arthritis bugaboo and she's experiencing some newbie frustrations with Dragon. I wanted to assure her it's up to the task... once she's taken time to teach it Delennspeak.

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    Whiterabbit-uk
    

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    Sorry Delenne, missed your second paragraph. I hope things will improve for you as well. Did you download that Babylon space shooter I referenced the other week????

    regards

    Whiterabbit

    Posted 9 months ago #
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    delenn13
    

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    Thanks, WR. Yes, I did download it. :) Of course, Not very good at it. Delenn is more of a diplomat than a fighter..unless you back her into a corner or threaten a friend.

    "Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari Fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!"

    Runemeister, yes, soon I will have this thing spouting minbari sayings.
    Neh sakh schleck, slem va (I am your friend, in peace)

    Posted 8 months ago #
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    RunesageMagik
    

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    Delenn, for well over 10 years I've kept finding new ways for Dragon to make life easier. Dictate or copy botanical names or long word strings (like association names) into the custom dictionary, train each one AND append a simple mnemonic or the acronym so whenever I say the name or the mnemonic/acronym, Dragon spits out the full name correctly. Indeed, you could teach it to use minbari sayings by adding each saying and associating it with the English translation. Then, you'd only have to speak the English and it would insert the phrase (perhaps a motto you use a lot in correspondence with other galactic diplomats) in Minbari!

    I'd begun to think there wasn't much else it could help with... then yesterday, along comes a new task - had to transcribe lists of 50 to 100 3-digit coordinates (i.e, 120,92,240) into an online form - with 3 SEPARATE input boxes for EACH X, and Y and Z (sans the commas) plus associate each set with very oddly-spelled proper names. (looked a lot like Minbari)

    Also had to create an MS WORD table that could sort them ascending/descending by the X-coord. Sheesh, I hate typing numbers, but the other normal option would have required 400 separate cuts and pastes per 100 coords if you count the names. No way... I breezed through by just dictating each number in, moving the cursor from each Xbox to Ybox to the Zbox. Plus, it was much easier and accurate to speak the odd names letter by letter than to type them.

    Good luck with both Dragon and your painful joints.

    Posted 8 months ago #

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