"Quoting" other users

[AB Editor]

Morning,

I'm hoping to have a way for us to "quote" one another today.

Questions:

1. How would you like the quotes to look? Italics? Bold? A different colour? All suggestions will be considered.

2. How would you like to implement it? We need a trigger to tell the system "this is a quote". This trigger will be typed before and after the quote so the system to knows where to begin and end. Some options:

{quote}message to be "quoted"{quote}
[Q]message to be "quoted"[Q]
*message to be "quoted"*

It is possible we could put some pretty quote marks around the quote. Who would be in favour of this?

Maybe like this:

"Quoting"

[AB Editor]

"beta testing before release"

Yes, that's what you're doing :)

[joggerjayne]

I'm reluctant to try this, coz I just know it won't work.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, crikey ... it DOES!!

[slaney]

Testing ..testing

[EcclesCake]

I want a go

[gen2]

trying again:

To emphasise[i or not to [i] emphasise [i] (in italics) - [i]that is the question.]

[Gromit]

Does not work as advertised. People have already stopped using it.

[smilingcrow]

arm the "lazer"

[jno]

as far as I can see

it works

but you have to leave spaces before and after the quoted text. I'm not sure what happened in gen2's post but I suspect the tags have to be properly paired or they won't work.

[Mamyalynne]

I thought it was no spaces

[jno]

to emphasise [i or not to [i] emphasise ] - that is the question.

[Old_Geezer]

Why would folk want to waste bandwidth on more "pretty pictures" this time out around a quote ?

How about white text on a white background ?

I don't have a problem in having it as a seperate paragraph with inverted commas before and after. Works for me. Only reason to do otherwise would be if you were going to make it a link to the actual post. In which case you'd probably need to insatall a quote button and some code on the page.

[jno]

it looks as if, rather than seeing the tags as pairs, the system is reading the first and last [ i ]'s but mangling the ones in between.

[Gromit]

^ ^ ^ ^

Doesn't work properly.

[emmie]

[not] perhaps...