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I have some UBB issues -
Nested tags for bolding don't work.

eg. [ b ] This paragraph has a [ b ] bold [ / b ] in the middle [ / b ]

ends up looking like
This paragraph has a [b] bold in the middle [/b]

This sucks - especially if you are quoting somebody who uses this courtesy convention of bolding the names of other posters.

Is there a good way of fixing this without having to be careful enuff to go and manipulate the quoted info just right?

I can come up with two that would be related to the board software -

Why not change the quoted link to italicize quoted text instead of bolding it?

Why not italicize poster's names?

Any other suggestions?

ps. I am sure that other people have asked this. What was the answer?

[ i ] This quote has a [ b ]Bold[ /b ] statement. [ /i ]

Hence... This quote has a Bold statement.

See what I'm getting at?

Rommie

[This message has been edited by JadziaDax (edited April 30, 2002).]

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Originally posted by coolghoul:
Is there a good way of fixing this without having to be careful enuff to go and manipulate the quoted info just right?

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When replying with quote to a post with bolding, you can delete the [ b ] from the beginning and the [ /b ] from the end of the quoted text.

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Why not change the quoted link to italicize quoted text instead of bolding it?

Why not italicize poster's names?

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You might end up with nested tags for italics.

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Any other suggestions?

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Have the software use a different font, size, or color for text between quote tags.

[This message has been edited by QuantumFlux (edited April 30, 2002).]

Suppose I quoted my above line. Here's what I do.

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Originally posted by that Nox guy:
I do the reverse of what [i]Rommie69[/bi] does.

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That's just me, I guess.

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coolghoul wrote:
I have some UBB issues -
Nested tags for bolding don't work.

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I edit all my quotes to be like the above. Just looks better imo And that way I don't have to worry about bolds, and italics are in general used much less frequently here, so when they do occur I either change them to bolds or take them out.

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Now, I am decent about snipping - if I have to snip the person's post (so that I'm replying to only the relevant parts), I do that. Quite a few people don't use many ubb tags in their post, so leaving the automatically put bold tags makes sense. But then some people have this convention of highlighting in bold a poster's name (which they are referring to in their post). These bold tags totally mess up the automatic bold tags.

The solution that TZ seems to suggest is that I always edit the ubb - I don't see why I should *have* to. I mean the whole point of putting the automatic bold tags when using the "quote link" is defeated.

Rommie69, when you see a poster's post, you can see 3 or 4 tiny icons at the top of each post (in a thread). One of them is the "quote link" (looks like a page with a red arrow going to the right) that I talk about above - you click that and you get a reply window with the poster's text already placed in quotes. Edit - Just realized that Rommie69 is a Vedran. You probably know more about this bbs and ubb than I do. I am leaving this in, in case anybody doesn't know what I'm talking about

[This message has been edited by coolghoul (edited April 30, 2002).]