Useful hints and tips

Quoting Amity

This is for internal quotes. I don't see anything about how to use the quote function for external sources.
I found this out by trial and error.

this I quote by clicking on the "speach" bubble

that is the sixth symbol from the left of the editing symbols on the top. For instance,

Proletars of the world, unite!

- Karl Marks
If you write the quote first, and then highlight it and then clickon the "quote" bubble, then it gives you options.

You can also edit it yourself.

Luke, 3:24:Proletars of the World-- unite!

Here I inserted the text '="Luke, 3:24"' (without the outer single quotes) right after the word quote in the opening of the quotation, which is embraced by square brackets.

Reply to god must be atheist
Thanks for good advice.
I am hoping that the 'Useful Hints and Tips' section is expanded/updated so that there is a permanent place for such.

There are so many excellent functions as per editing symbols - I didn't realise until fairly recently.

The bold, italics, underline, etc - are familiar to most. Some need a clearer explanation.
For example, I didn't appreciate the usefulness of the @ function.
@Baden

Another thing I noticed when I requoted a poster who had included a quote from e.g. Hegel.
This was not transferred over. So, I had to use the quote function again to highlight and name Hegel.
It can be a bit of a palaver, but very useful once you know how !

Luke, 3:24:Proletars of the World-- unite!

:party:

Reply to Amity Glad to be of service, Amity. I was helped out just a day or two ago with the @ thing by a good Samaritan on this site. I typed @, instead of point-and-clicked on it. But now I know better.

Reply to Wallows

I've been talking to Street Preachers and Jehowa's Witnesses a bit too much lately, it seems. This is not a joke; I am so lonely, and hard up for human company, that I'll talk to anyone, and the JW-s are the most readily available people for this.

I tried the police, too, but they only listen to you selectively. I found that out the hard way.

And therapists have dried up in my country... the free therapists, that is.

@Amity and @Wallows, could you please tell me in a few words or less, what the heck that red triangle symbolizes that @Wallows stuck to the end of your reply to me? For me I can't make out anything but a red triangle, with some sticks coming out it, possibly also surrounded by a yellow halo. The yellow halo may be an optical illusion.

Most of these symbols are a one-way communication device... those who send the symbols, know what they mean, but those who receive it, haven't a clue.

Reply to Amity

I've added a link to this discussion at the end of the hints and tips page. :up:

Still can't figure out from this how the @mention function works. If I enter @[username], it appears as plain text, not as a hyperlink to that username.

Reply to Wayfarer It's in the text box toolbar see.



If you're typing it, you have to use double quotes around the username.

aha! Thanks, it was the one feature I could never figure out. Couldn't see it for looking :meh:

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Q: How do you create a link to a particular comment in another thread ?
A: Dunno :chin:
Help ?!

Reply to Amity

Create a quote in the normal way from the post in the other thread. Copy or cut it from the text box in that thread, return to your thread and paste.

Reply to Amity Also you can right-click the "___ minutes/days/etc ago" bit after the post you want to link to and "Copy Link" or whatever your browser says for that option.

Bongo's method above will give you a quote with a link, but you asked for just a link, which the above will give you. For example, here is a quote from my last comment before this one:

Quoting Pfhorrest

Okay, I figured that's probably the more sensible thing you meant, but also, that has nothing whatsoever to do with the kind of "emergence" that I've ever been talking about.

And here is just a link to that whole comment:

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/518042

Reply to bongo fury Reply to Pfhorrest

Many thanks to both. Let's see if I can do it...

Quoting Pierre-Normand

That's a very nice multi-part OP! I just finished reading the whole thing. I had copy-pasted all parts in a unique documents and saved it as a pdf in order to be able to highlight and annotate.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/516439

Yay :cool:

I have the impression that if you edit a post of yours, and add a mention, that mention does not show up in the other poster's account and they're not notified.

I noticed that notifications of mentions include a short bit of the post -- but as it was when it was first posted, disregarding later edits. (So that in the notification, you can read things that aren't in the post anymore, nor the new ones.)

Does anyone have definitive knowledge of this?

Reply to baker

Yes, it's a bug.

I've been having a keyboard problem that appears only in some reply windows here: the written text appears _after_ the cursor.

This doesn't happen in other programs on the same computer, not even in all reply windows here at the forums.

Pressing either of the Insert keys changes nothing.