bq test

quoted stuff

Code tag stuff goes here More stuff

Testing with pre

Inside pre

after pre

twice bq’d

just once

outside

once

twice

normal

So that’s how to quote on this forum…

bq. first

second

Nope. I can never work this out, and can’t find in the textile info how to do nested block quotes.

You have to do multi-level quoting manually…

<blockquote><blockquote>First</blockquote>

Second</blockquote>

should turn out as

First

Second

(and it does! :-)

I can never work this out, and can’t find in the textile info how to do nested block quotes.

bq doesn’t nest AFAIK

<blockquote> does nest - treat it like standard HTML tag
<blockquote><blockquote> some double depth quoted</blockquote> back to single depth </blockquote> and outside

some double depth quoted

back to single depth

Ah-ha! So the problem was that I was barking up entirely the wrong tree! :-)

Is this now the right tree?

yes!

Thanks.

Why doesn’t the “help” (sic) say this?

Jim

Why doesn’t the “help” (sic) say this?

Because the “help” is lame and the Textile parser is lamer yet?

Because the “help” is lame

Maybe someone who knows most of the markup should write a short “howto”

Maybe someone who knows most of the markup should write a short “howto”

Perhaps something like https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Forum

Perhaps something like https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Forum

Not that it isn’t a nice document but I was thinking maybe a bit more content

Not that it isn’t a nice document but I was thinking maybe a bit more content

I’m sure that it can be improved and added to!

Thinking about it: it appears odd that I can cut and paste items I want to quote. Logically,
it might make sense if that automagically put them into some kind of ‘quoted’ highlight
markup. But I guess the server doesn’t know the user has done this.

The two ‘issues’ that have repeatedly caused me to struggle with ‘textile’ are:

1) Quoting and nesting quotes. All the standard explanation deals with is the first level ‘bq’ method
with no explanation beyond that. The blockquote tag doesn’t even get a mention so far as I could see.

2) Making some test appear as fixed-space preformatted ‘code’. Having done some hand editing of HTML
I can understand the use of pre and code tags. But even then I think I’ve hit problems with
using them for this site. Logically, I’d expect the ‘code’ tag to also flag preformatted, etc,
even ignoring the question of ‘TT’… :-)

Jim

This is my own test for quoting a quote

bq. I like chips in brown gravy
bq. He’s fallen in the water

I hope it works

Nope! Lets have another go…

I like chips in brown gravy

He’s fallen in the water

How did that go?

Splendid!

Another quote test
bq. Second line

Yet another one!

Don't
mind
me

Or
me

Hmm

hhhhhh"

Grr!!

Block quote test
continue on next line

and a gap?