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Using my laptop and wanting to reply to a post, I hit the “reply” button, then go back to the post, use my mouse to highlight the part of the post that I want to include in my reply, and hit the “quote” button, and so only THAT part of the post will appear with a heading “{poster} wrote:”.
In the next post, i am going to see if I can get the same thing, using my iPad.
Using my laptop and wanting to reply to a post, I hit the “reply” button, then go back to the post, use my mouse to highlight the part of the post that I want to include in my reply, and hit the “quote” button, and so only THAT part of the post will appear with a heading “{poster} wrote:”.
In the next post, i am going to see if I can get the same thing, using my iPad.
I am testing here to see if I get only the selected part of the post? Or if I get the entire post that I am replying to.
safari
Is there a way to manually modify the code for a quote so that it will contain only a part of the quote and not the entire thing — maybe, add something more to what’s within the brackets
{quote quote=2547921} Will this work?{/quote}
NOTE: in the real code for the quote to appear in the message box, square brackets are to be used instead of the curly braces here.
maybe, add something more to what’s within the brackets
Post-edit: Yes, it does. The text quoted comes from #2547913.
My conclusion is that when using an iPad, you cannot select (i.e., highlight) a portion of text to be quoted and then click on the ‘QUOTE’ button at the bottom of the post from which the selected text is to appear as a quote. If you do that, you will get the complete text, not a portion of it. To get just part of the quote, you have to manually code it, using the format that @b provides, but actually using square brackets instead of curly braces.
Maybe, that’s why some of the quoted text in posts is exceedingly long: posters are using iPads or iPhones/smart phones to reply to posts and if they select a portion of the post to quote, the complete post is quoted instead.
I’ll now try to remember curly braces when on IOS into my memory bank.
Just to be clear, you DON’T use curly braces when you actually code for a partial quote in the AskWoody message box. You use square brackets.
This is how the quote above was typed into the message box:
In @b ‘s post (and my post, too), the curly braces were used as a substitute, because otherwise it would be acted upon as actual code and that was not the intent.
So, if you intend it to be actual code, you use square brackets. The result in the post will be a tan-colored background, the ID of the poster (in blue), and a portion of the poster’s text (in italics), as you see it at the top of this post.
using ask woody reply default visual vs text tab (not made clear in above convo):
It’s difficult to tell which tab is active, because the background color looks nearly the same.
Additionally, the typescript looks the same (except for the font), no matter whether using the ‘visual’ tab or the ‘text’ tab, so it makes no difference which tab you choose (IMHO) when formulating the code for quoting a portion of a post.
And it makes no difference in its appearance when posted, either.
But, I agree … there should be a better way for iPhone/iPad users to quote in a reply a portion of a post.
Have you used the desktop mode in Safari (vs mobile ?)
Viewing the AskWoody site on my iPad, I don’t see a difference in how the Mobile Website option vs the Desktop Website option appears or works. In both, you cannot effect a partial quote without manually coding it.
I didn’t do it here because the post to be quoted is short and it takes time to type it (a number of keys to hit for just one square bracket alone and double-checking that it’s formatted correctly b/c that’s critical).
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