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tlanglet



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:56 pm    Post subject: Message Text Indentation Reply with quote

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.



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Marty,

The only ones I know of immediately put the indented text inside a
Code:
   
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



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:16 am    Post subject: re: indent Reply with quote


    to indent, use [list]

      and let's indent this one even more
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Pat



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

daj95376 wrote:

  • I unchecked the "Disable HTML" box in the message composition window.
    HTML is disabled in our posts
    ( even when we request otherwise )
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tlanglet



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:20 pm    Post subject: Re: re: indent Reply with quote

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 Exclamation

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daj95376



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:02 pm    Post subject: Re: re: indent Reply with quote

tlanglet wrote:
My specific interest was to align branches in a chain notation ...

List only indents the beginning of the line. It doesn't change the font ... which is your problem.
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Pat



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PostPosted: Mon May 03, 2010 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

one way -- use nested [list] --
    abc
      def
        ghi
        jkl

another way -- use [code], with the desired number of spaces ( not TABs ) --
Code:

abc
    def
        ghi
        jkl



( you can press "quote" to see my bbCode )

~ Pat
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