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Rich,
Thanks much for your patience and for your supportive comments! It is appreciated.
Here are some guidelines for formatting your comments:
To force a carriage return just enter < br >
Note: when you type these "tags," don't put a space between the corner brackets (the "<" or ">") and the
stuff inside (like the 'br' above). I have to type it that way so you can see the tag in this post.
To make a word or phrase bold, put < strong > in front and < /strong > at the end.
For italics, put < em > in front and < /em > at the end.
To start a new paragraph, just use a < p > at the beginning.
To create an
- indented
- bullet
- point
- list
start the list with < ul > and then put a < li > in front of each bulleted item. At the very bottom of the
list, put a closing < /ul>
tag.
If you leave off the leading < ul > and trailing < /ul >, the list
will
still
work
but won't be indented
Also, if you want to center a block of text, just put a < center > in front and a closing < /center > at the
end. So, for example,
I'm a cented block of text, often used for an extended quote.
To add extra spaces, type the ampersand symbol followed immediately by "nbsp;" It stands for "non breaking
space" and you can string them together to create multiple spaces.
All the tags described here are standard HTML tags. There is more to HTML, but for our discussion hall, these
tags are pretty much the main ones that come up.
Other HTML tags, such as table tags, work as well. For example,
| cell1 | cell2 | cell3 |
| cell4 | cell5 | cell6 |
| cell7 | cell8 | cell9 |
I had to disable hyperlinks in the discussion hall because it seemed to invite a flood of spamming. If you
want to find out more about other tags, like how to do the table I just did, you can google "HTML Reference."
A particularly convenient reference can be found at www .willcam.com/cmat/html/crossref.html
If you want to experiment with your formatting before submitting a post, you can create a text document with
Notepad and change the document suffix from .txt to .html. When you open that document in a browser, it will
"render," and you'll be able to see how the post will look.
I hope this short reference is useful. Let me know if you've got any other questions.
And thanks again for your continued interest and participation!
Wes Edwards
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