Okay, I give up. There doesn't seem to be any logic at all as to whether you get a line space between someone's quote (when you "quote" someone else's post in a topic) and what you write under it. It doesn't seem to matter whether the /quote code is on a separate line from the quoted text or not - if you type on the next line after that, sometimes you get a blank line in your resulting post, and sometimes not.

I am just sufficiently OCD to have to go back and edit it if there's no line space. Aragh!! I'm going to eat a snickers bar now, that'll calm me down .

Quote from: Padma on November 01, 2012, 05:12:54 PM
Okay, I give up. There doesn't seem to be any logic at all as to whether you get a line space between someone's quote (when you "quote" someone else's post in a topic) and what you write under it. It doesn't seem to matter whether the /quote code is on a separate line from the quoted text or not - if you type on the next line after that, sometimes you get a blank line in your resulting post, and sometimes not.

See what I mean?

And then if you put the extra line space in yourself, sometimes you end up with two lines of space.

[...who cares?... I do!! ...eat your snickers... Okay.]

Quote from: Padma on November 01, 2012, 05:14:05 PM
See what I mean?

And then if you put the extra line space in yourself, sometimes you end up with two lines of space.

[...who cares?... I do!! ...eat your snickers... Okay.]

You're just looking for excuses to eat Snickers bars. And I didn't add a line.

Quote from: Padma on November 01, 2012, 05:14:05 PM
See what I mean?

And then if you put the extra line space in yourself, sometimes you end up with two lines of space.

[...who cares?... I do!! ...eat your snickers... Okay.]

<Jamie avoids eye contact.  Crosses to other side of street>

Quote from: Jamie D on November 01, 2012, 05:33:56 PM
<Jamie avoids eye contact.  Crosses to other side of street>

...and now I can't get it to do it. Humph. And now I'm in sugar shock *crosses to the other side of the street from herself*

Quote from: Padma on November 01, 2012, 05:12:54 PM
Okay, I give up. There doesn't seem to be any logic at all as to whether you get a line space between someone's quote (when you "quote" someone else's post in a topic) and what you write under it. It doesn't seem to matter whether the /quote code is on a separate line from the quoted text or not - if you type on the next line after that, sometimes you get a blank line in your resulting post, and sometimes not.

I am just sufficiently OCD to have to go back and edit it if there's no line space. Aragh!! I'm going to eat a snickers bar now, that'll calm me down .
[ /quote]

I added a space between the quoted text to show it's there...

Quote from: Padma on November 01, 2012, 05:12:54 PM
Okay, I give up. There doesn't seem to be any logic at all as to whether you get a line space between someone's quote (when you "quote" someone else's post in a topic) and what you write under it. It doesn't seem to matter whether the /quote code is on a separate line from the quoted text or not - if you type on the next line after that, sometimes you get a blank line in your resulting post, and sometimes not.

I am just sufficiently OCD to have to go back and edit it if there's no line space. Aragh!! I'm going to eat a snickers bar now, that'll calm me down .

This time I didn't...but kept the double return entry to show the gap in a professionally done quote.

And I ***LOVE*** Snickers !!!!!!

...So the entire entry is shown as a Quote if...I give up. I'm in the mood for lasagna NOW.

I'm not sure how we went from text to lasagna, but I'm happy about it!

Quote from: Beth Andrea on November 01, 2012, 06:23:20 PM
...So the entire entry is shown as a Quote if...I give up. I'm in the mood for lasagna NOW.

Yes, if you mess with the [ /quote] code (by, for example, sticking a space in there), there's no proper end of quote, so the whole thing becomes a quote.

I could kill for gluten-free lasagna right now (or maim, anyway). I'll have to make do with toast.

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on November 01, 2012, 06:29:57 PM
I'm not sure how we went from text to lasagna, but I'm happy about it!

Better than going from text to sexting.

Quote from: Ms. OBrien on November 01, 2012, 07:13:41 PM
Better than going from text to sexting.

...the void...
I tried that once - do you have any idea how difficult it is to type on an iPhone, one-handed?

Quote from: Padma on November 01, 2012, 07:15:29 PM
...the void...
I tried that once - do you have any idea how difficult it is to type on an iPhone, one-handed?

I'm quite serious, you know. It wasn't a planned event, it did literally morph from texting (the other person was drunk and post-karaoke, which sort of explains it) to sexting - I feel I now know what it's like to be a fighter pilot.

Only in the "having to concentrate on so many activities at once" sense, obviously. Any landing you walk away from is a good one...

...


See, this is why snickers after midnight is a bloody stupid idea...

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on November 01, 2012, 06:29:57 PM
I'm not sure how we went from text to lasagna, but I'm happy about it!

Anytime is appropriate for lasagna!! And setting, while not as much fun as the real thing, at least allows ONE hand free to type with (I suspect most of you use the "hunt-and-peck"method of typing... )

Err...wait, what was this thread about? :S

The Godzilla facepalm just made me pee on myself. Fortunately, I've been informed that this would be an appropriate time for lasagna. What were we talking about?

Well, I tend to use both hands for texting, and both hands for sex, so it was an exercise in compromise . Or a steep learning curve. Or something. I wouldn't want to make a habit of it, but it was fun.

Ooh, lasagna!

I do sympathise Padma. When we remember that computers are, by their nature, logical machines, we naturally assume they would indeed be logical and unthinking.

I'm currently trying to discover more about video codecs. I'm sure there is something logical there, but they seems to be designed to act randomly.

Reminds me of a cartoon I saw in the 80s, written along the lines of early Freak Brothers which claimed that, inside computers, are actually microscopic, super intelegent beings and the learning curve is actually a discovery of how these creatures think.

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Playing with quotes to do designs isn't quite as fun here as it was on the old myspace forums.  Theirs was fully boxed.

Yes, if you mess with the [ /quote] code (by, for example, sticking a space in there), there's no proper end of quote, so the whole thing becomes a quote.

I hate it, so I don't use it, returning to a slightly more elegant typology from the golden age of text.