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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: Message Text Indentation |
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How so you indent new text to be inline with existing text? Spacing or tabbing over does not appear to work.
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Marty R.
Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know (other than typing characters such as hyphens or underscores), but have you seen any posts that have indents in the format you'd like to see?
This line was indented with six spaces.
------Six hyphens. |
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daj95376
Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 3854
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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I tried something that completely failed. Since I know nothing about HTML, it could have been my lack of understanding.
*) ___ I took a text file and used a conversion program to create an HTML file.
*) ___ I unchecked the "Disable HTML" box in the message composition window.
*) ___ I pasted in the contents of the HTML file.
Garbage: the raw body of the HTML file was displayed.
Oh well, so much for that experiment. |
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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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Marty,
The only ones I know of immediately put the indented text inside a delimiterpair. That works but you also get a code: heading.
I thought that I have previously seen indented text without the code: comment.
I will keep looking.
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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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daj95376 wrote: | I tried something that completely failed. Since I know nothing about HTML, it could have been my lack of understanding.
*) ___ I took a text file and used a conversion program to create an HTML file.
*) ___ I unchecked the "Disable HTML" box in the message composition window.
*) ___ I pasted in the contents of the HTML file.
Garbage: the raw body of the HTML file was displayed.
Oh well, so much for that experiment. |
Danny, I see lots of text indentation on the sudoku.org.uk site, but they do not use phpbb. This that the source of are problem?
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Pat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 207
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:16 am Post subject: re: indent |
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to indent, use [list]
and let's indent this one even more |
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Pat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 207
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:19 am Post subject: |
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daj95376 wrote: |
- I unchecked the "Disable HTML" box in the message composition window.
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HTML is disabled in our posts
( even when we request otherwise ) |
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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: re: indent |
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Pat wrote: |
to indent, use [list]
and let's indent this one even more |
Houston, I have indentations.
My specific interest was to align branches in a chain notation where the indentation is an arbitrary amount, so I also looked at the "List=" command but have yet to figure out how to use it.
Thanks Pat for pointing in the right direction
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daj95376
Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 3854
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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject: Re: re: indent |
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tlanglet wrote: | My specific interest was to align branches in a chain notation ...
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List only indents the beginning of the line. It doesn't change the font ... which is your problem. |
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Pat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 207
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:11 am Post subject: |
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one way -- use nested [list] --
another way -- use [code], with the desired number of spaces ( not TABs ) --
( you can press "quote" to see my bbCode )
~ Pat |
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