A comment about creating links

[BCAC]

It's really relatively simple (it's probably the "relatively" that scares people!). Let me see if I can try to translate. Firstly you have to open a new tab (window) on the site you want to link to and copy the address from the address bar. Copy this by pressing the keys Ctrl and C at the same time.

Then, back on your post on XMarks, type in some text which you will use as and indicater of your link (example 'Click Here for Haggis') then select (underline) this (which covers the text in blue) by pressing MAJ and dragging the mouse over the text.

Once this is done, click on the icon (in the XMarks reply box which you are using) which is in the shape of a globe with a small sideways 8 on the bottom. This will open a window. All that is left to do is to paste the previously copied address (where you pressed the Ctrl and C keys at the same time) by pressing the keys Ctrl and V at the same time.

Easy, isn't it.

[Aussie_Don]

It's really relatively simple (it's probably the "relatively" that scares people!).

Let me see if I can try to translate.

Firstly you have to open a new tab (window) on the site you want to link to and copy the address from
the address bar.

Copy this by pressing the keys Ctrl and C at the same time.

With you so far

Then, back on your post on XMarks, type in some text which you will use as and indicater of your link
(example 'Click Here for Haggis') then select (underline) this (which covers the text in blue) by pressing
MAJ and dragging the mouse over the text.

I am assuming that MAJ is the French equivalent of "Shift" (A hangover from typewriters when the shift
key really did shift the innards where the little levers with the type were.)

Once this is done, click on the icon (in the XMarks reply box which you are using) which is in the shape
of a globe with a small sideways 8 on the bottom. This will open a window.

All that is left to do is to paste the previously copied address (where you pressed the Ctrl and C keys at
the same time) by pressing the keys Ctrl and V at the same time.

Easy, isn't it.

I'd have liked to show the mouse on the link icon, but unfortunately, my screenshot program "helpfully"
removed the mouse pointer from the screen picture.

Thanks for your comments -- I'll try to see if I can incorporate them in the original post to make it
more useful.

-Don

[BCAC]

Don, sorry, but of course you're right. MAJ is the French equivalent of Shift. My apologies.

Perhaps you could now explain the multi quotes?

I used to have this possibility. There used to be an icon on the bottom right of all posts in the shape of quote marks with a + sign, but this is no more?

[Llama]

You can also simply type it like this:

[ URL="http://www.google.com.au/" ]Google[ /URL ]

Without the spaces, though. It may seem more complex, but it's honestly less steps and easier once you get the hang of it.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

And FYI, if you want to show somebody exactly what they need to type, but prevent the forum form interpreting the tags, just place the noparse tags around it, like this


[noparse]
[URL="http://www.google.com.au/"]Google[ /URL]
[/noparse]

[Llama]

Thanks! I was trying to figure that out. In other forums, I've been able to use [code] but it wasn't working here.

[Aussie_Don]

Don, sorry, but of course you're right. MAJ is the French equivalent of Shift. My apologies.

No worries, it was fairly obvious from the context and the fact that your
header says that you are from France.

Perhaps you could now explain the multi quotes?

I used to have this possibility. There used to be an icon on the bottom right of all posts in the shape of quote marks with a + sign, but this is no more?

Ahh, I suppose that this is another case of the "geek factor".

The first time that I replied with quotes, I noticed the tags
before and after the quoted material. I also act as the webmaster
for the Victorian Folk Music Club.
And, unlike some, I actually hand-code my HTML pages. So, I
rather rapidly recognised the tags around the quote as being
a markup language and the syntax. So I simply tried modifying
it and looking at the preview. It worked, what can I say.

So, in the case of this message, all of your text was enclosed in the
tags:


[QUOTE=BCAC;1184829]


and


[/QUOTE]



So I copied and pasted the QUOTE tag above the second paragraph of
your comments and added a /QUOTE tag at the end of the first
paragraph and above my comments. I have to confess to being very
"old school" about replying. I'll show my age by admitting that I was
using the original Usenet newsgroups in the very early 1990s. The
technique of in-line replies was a part of that culture.

And, as for the copy and paste stuff, it's a lot easier on a Linux
system with a three button mouse. (Hold down left button dragging
over text to highlight, then move mouse to paste location, then press
middle button and the text pastes. This has been standard *nix
behaviour for a long time.

Thanks KiltedCodeWarrior for the noparse tags -- BTW are the
tags case -insensitive? All the ones I've seen have been upper-case.

And thanks to Llama for the URL tag -- I'd really rather type
stuff most of the time.

If the initial post becomes sticky, I'll modify it to include the URL tags.

-Don

[BCAC]

Ah, that simple, eh?

Thanks, Don.

[Aussie_Don]

Ah, that simple, eh?

Thanks, Don.

The simple things are best....


-Don

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

....

Thanks KiltedCodeWarrior for the noparse tags -- BTW are the
tags case -insensitive? All the ones I've seen have been upper-case.

....

No, they are not case sensitive as far as I know.