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[web] How do you use the TT tag on Gamedev?

Started by Rhaal Apr 3, 2005 at 1:39 PM 4 replies 1.4k views

Original Post

Apr 3, 2005 at 1:39 PM

Ok I see people able to put [ source ] tags into their posts without the spaces when explaining to somebody how to use them. I go to quote or edit and I see that they used a truetype tag < tt >. So, I try to do it: //trying to do it </tt> //Done And it doesn't work. Help! Edit: SEE?

Evil Steve

Apr 3, 2005 at 1:47 PM

It's possible they use Ӓ (or whatever the ASCII code is for [ ) instead of using the [ character. That way the forums wouldn't parse it as a tag.
However, if you go to quote them, or edit their post, the forum software would display the actual tag (it parses out the Ӓ code I believe)

Drew_Benton

Apr 3, 2005 at 1:49 PM

Quote:
Original post by Evil Steve
It's possible they use ? (or whatever the ASCII code is for [ ) instead of using the [ character. That way the forums wouldn't parse it as a tag.
However, if you go to quote them, or edit their post, the forum software would display the actual tag (it parses out the ? code I believe)

Agreed! To get:

[source] [/source]

You must type in:

[source] [/source]

Which typing out is annoying [lol] Look at this post now. So make sure you copy paste your post when using these special characters! I use this reference.

Agony

Apr 3, 2005 at 1:53 PM

I just use the [ and ] character entities to represent '[' and ']'. So I type [source][/source], and it comes out as [source][/source]. However, when you edit the post, I think it'll convert the [ and ] to '[' and ']', so if I were to accept the modifications after editing, without fixing those back to what they were originally, then it'll screw it all up and use actuall source tags to create a source code box. Evil. So viewing the post using [Edit] won't always show you precisely what was originally typed. Though I suppose this doesn't apply in this case. But maybe what people were typing was [source][/source], but what you were seeing when you edited the post was merely [source][/source], which made you think that it was the tags that prevented the [source][/source] tags from not getting parsed, when in fact it was because people typed [source][/source]. Okay, I sincerely hope I got everything here correct, 'cause if I have to edit this post, it's all gonna go to hell...

Rhaal

Apr 3, 2005 at 3:08 PM

[source] [/source]

Edit:
[source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source][source] [/source]

Edit2: SWEET!

Rhaal

Apr 3, 2005 at 3:30 PM

I figured I'd just store this in my profile note section, but it was converted! So now my question is:

How do you display the information on how to display the answer to my original question?

Edit: [source] [/source]

Nevermind. Drew pointed it out. (smacks self)

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