I wanted to highlight the words "supporting evidence" in quotes from both PaulK and Percy but don't know how to.
Whenever you want to know how to do something, find a message that does it and hit its
peek button. That will open another window that displays the raw text, including all the dBCodes.
You can do it with this message. For example, there's
bold,
italics, and
underline. You can also
change the color, though you need to be careful with your choice of colors, since some color combinations do not contrast well with each other and can be unduly difficult to read -- problems dealing with certain contrasts tend to get worse with age. You can also
change font size. Play around with it, using the Preview button to test your changes before actually posting the message. And, as I said, use the
peek button to see what the codes look like.
The basic concept of those codes is almost exactly the same as with HTML, except these use square brackets ( ) instead of "angle brackets" ( < > ). Also, some dBCodes do not seem to play well together. In such cases, you can use HTML; that is a forum feature that I haven't seen elsewhere yet and it can be very useful indeed. Though when I use it to display a table, for some reason it seems to pad a lot of space before the table that an admin then has to come along to fix.
Here's an added treat, some same formatting code someone posted once. It's embedded between two "horizontal rules" produced by HTML HR tags:
question
|
is there sufficient valid
information available to decide
| |
yes no
| |
decide based is a
on empirical decision
valid evidence necessary?
(A) / \
yes no
/ \
decide why
based on decide
inadequate at this
evidence time?
=guess =wait
(B) (C)
Ah DC85, you forget,
why does a creator define your truths? Your questions do not make sense until you answer this... Please explain
That's his presupposition. see
Message 132
Isn't that cool? Just use the
peek button to see how it's done.
Also, for displaying a link to a particular message, go to that message and look at the gray number in parentheses immediately to the right of the
Message ### of ### at the top of the message. For a topic ID, I usually pull that number out of the URL/URI.
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