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ldwechsler wrote:Sorry when I mess up the quotes (I do it far too often). When you're born in 1934 and came to computing late, there are problems.

If you were born in '34, you probably learned to form quotation marks as "sixes and nines" A six-shaped mark (or marks) to open a quote and nine-shaped marks to close the quote.

vB code tags work the same way, just substitute [quote ] for the sixes and [/quote ] for the nines (without the space that keeps them from being parsed.)

Weird Harold wrote:If you were born in '34, you probably learned to form quotation marks as "sixes and nines" A six-shaped mark (or marks) to open a quote and nine-shaped marks to close the quote.

vB code tags work the same way, just substitute [quote ] for the sixes and [/quote ] for the nines (without the space that keeps them from being parsed.)

Weird Harold: I recommend using the [ code ] tags to demonstrate. There isn't a button for them, but they still work on here. For example:

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[quote="Weird Harold"]Hello.[/quote]

[quote="munroburton"][quote="Weird Harold"]Hello.[/quote]
Greetings.[/quote]

Those two turn into:

Weird Harold wrote:Hello.

and

munroburton wrote:

Weird Harold wrote:Hello.

Greetings.

To make formatting easier to pick out, some users might space it out like this:

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[quote="munroburton"]
  [quote="Weird Harold"]
  Hello.
  [/quote]
Greetings.
[/quote]

munroburton wrote:Weird Harold: I recommend using the [ code ] tags to demonstrate. There isn't a button for them, but they still work on here.

Good to know that

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[code][/code]

works. It wouldn't have done much for the syntax of what i was trying to explain, but it's good to know.

Weird Harold wrote:

munroburton wrote:Weird Harold: I recommend using the [ code ] tags to demonstrate. There isn't a button for them, but they still work on here.

Good to know that

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[code][/code]

works. It wouldn't have done much for the syntax of what i was trying to explain, but it's good to know.

I try, I really try. Thanks for the assistance. When I try it, however, I always think the first quote comes last.

ldwechsler wrote: I try, I really try. Thanks for the assistance. When I try it, however, I always think the first quote comes last.

First [quote= Richard Roe"] is the last quote
next

John Doe wrote:is the middle one
last [quote= Joe Shmo"] is the first one

so: [quote= Richard Roe"]

John Doe wrote:[quote= Joe Shmo"]

Ehhh, whats up doc?

Be quiet, be vewwwy quiet

Yeah,he's hunting wabbits[/quote]

Joe Shmo is reprising the role of Bugs Bunny