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SenaxFlatulus · #1 (**permalink**) 04-02-2006, 02:11 PM

While you may not be interested in this method because it's more complicated, you might have noticed others who can post someone's previous message in their post as a quote, yet break it up into parts so they can make it appear as a conversation.

The key to this task are the brackets. Found on your keyboard to the right of the letter P, the brackets "[ ]" are used in lots of computer coding to command the software to manipulate the text in different ways.

If you click on the quote button at the bottom of anyone's post in a given thread, you're suddenly taken to a text entry box with their post in it. You'll notice that their screen name appears with some odd commands and it's all enclosed by the brackets. It might look something like this:

[b]

Quote:

Originally Posted by "SenaxFlatulus";p="224940"[/b

(Please note: I left off the close bracket in this example "]" because it would have made anything after that appear as a quote. Normally, it should also appear in that command.)

That's computer coding to command the software to begin a quote. ANY text after that will be a part of the quote. The way to stop the quote wherever you want it, would be to type

which is the "close quote" command.

What I do, when I break up other people's quote into something that resembles a conversation, is to Hi-light/copy the open quote command.
(For example, if I were to quote me it would be: [b]

Quote:

Originally Posted by "SenaxFlatulus";p="224940"[/b

)

Then when I wanted to interject my thoughts into their paragraph, I would manually type the close quote command on any given sentence. (

) Followed by my newly entered text of brilliant ideas, and then I would paste the open quote command ([b][quote="SenaxFlatulus";p="224940"[/b]) to resume their thoughts.

Watch the posts below as I illustrate...