"Quoting" other users

[AB Editor]

Morning,

I'm hoping to have a way for us to "quote" one another today.

Questions:

1. How would you like the quotes to look? Italics? Bold? A different colour? All suggestions will be considered.

2. How would you like to implement it? We need a trigger to tell the system "this is a quote". This trigger will be typed before and after the quote so the system to knows where to begin and end. Some options:

{quote}message to be "quoted"{quote}
[Q]message to be "quoted"[Q]
*message to be "quoted"*

It is possible we could put some pretty quote marks around the quote. Who would be in favour of this?

Maybe like this:

"Quoting"

[AB Editor]

ah, a cross-post which answers my question.

I'll implement an [i] instead.

[Gromit]

{q}Why have you gone for { } brackets which involve a shift when the [ ] do not?{q}

[AB Editor]

[i]{q}Why have you gone for { } brackets which involve a shift when the [ ] do not?{q} [i]

Better?

[AB Editor]

ah, I need to escape those squiggly brackets. One mo.

[AB Editor]

{q}Why have you gone for { } brackets which involve a shift when the [

do not{q} ]

[Nibble]

Better?

- looks good ☺

[Mamyalynne]

[i]ooooh!![i]

[Mamyalynne]

I'm not keeping up am I?

[AB Editor]

Okay,

We can now use

Italics

You need a square bracket'd i on each end of the quote.

Lets see how we get on. Feel free to practice here.

[AB Editor]

Not your fault Mamya, I'm picking up stray characters like ! as I go!

[AB Editor]

Mamya:

ooooh!!

[ummmm]

hello

[Gromit]

To find { } and [ ] on the iPad/iPhone/iPod is the same and equally as easy. But on a desktop / laptop proper keyboard, it would be better not to have to shift if it is unnecessary to have to do so. (make it as easy as possible and more people will use it0.

[Nibble]

Ed, just noticed that I posted an

Better? [i

, which came out without the ] at both ends of the quote.... strange? mmmm

[ummmm]

[i]I'm so clever[i]

[Frank97]

[Not your fault Mamya, I'm picking up stray characters like ! as I go! ]
Like this ?

[ummmm]

No I'm not...lol

[tinkerbell23]

Oh yes i like dr evil quoting LOL x

[ummmm]

How come it worked the first time?

[Frank97]

[]Not your fault Mamya, I'm picking up stray characters like ! as I go![]