"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]

Try again Umm

Put [ i ] without the spaces at either end D97

[Lie-in King]

Fascinating

[Nibble]

Ah! I see if you add a space after the

then the quote is not indicated as a quote. But without a space gives the

at both ends of the quote... interesting :-}

[Frank97]

So what am I doing wrong?

[ummmm]

it worked the second time

[AB Editor]

How come it worked the first time?

The second instance contained a: '

Which I had not accounted for! I'm playing catch-up.

[Gromit]

Leaning is OK

Don't like the red, but you said you are getting rid of that. I would still prefer black (or grey, but that might make it more difficult to read).

[Frank97]

So what am I doing wrong?

[ummmm]

You know what to expect now Ed, loads of posts asking why people put [] in their posts

[Nibble]

fascinating

as well L-i-K

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting

[ummmm]

Okay....I'm getting it now.

[Gromit]

It is not red -

Excellent!

[AB Editor]

I went for a really dark blue Gromit

Hopefully members will be able to see it without really seeing it.

[Frank97]

Ah, I got it! Bet I forget though when the time comes to use it.

[Lie-in King]

[q

I went for a really dark blue Gromit[q]]

Looks grey to me...

[Gromit]

This is a test, but I think the italic has its own line so you cannot italise just one word in a sentence.

This is a test, but I think the italic has its own line so you cannot

italise

just one word in a sentence.

[Mamyalynne]

Grey to me too

[Zeuhl]

Testing Testing

[Lets see how we get on. Feel free to practice here.]

I wonder ...

[AB Editor]

I'm using a <div> to style it currently, which seems to have this property. I'm looking for a way to get around it. <p> is no good, I've tried this already.