DSeid (the poster I was quoting) had a numbered list in his post with 5 items in the list. I wanted to address my comments to only Items 3-5 of his list, so I deleted the first two. But since the numbering was done by the board software formatting function and not manually, the list was now numbered 1-3, with the old #3 becoming #1, and so on.
ISTM that the only ways to deal with this are to either quote a bunch of extraneous material or to manually recreate the list numbering.
I don’t think there was any harm done in this case. But I understand in general the idea is to keep anything in a quote box sancrosanct. Is there an officially approved method of dealing with this type of situation?
I was hoping that you could just use the obvious, and change [noparse][ol] into [list=3][/noparse], but that didn’t work:
[list=3][li]This should be number 3[/li][li]And this number 4[/li][/ol]
I guess you could always replace [noparse][ol] with just [ul][/noparse], so that you’d get an unordered list:
[list][li]This should be number 3[/li][li]And this number 4[/li][/ul]
Or, yes, manually edit the list, even though it will make it look dumb if an item takes up more than one line.
This is a multiline long third item that is quite tertiary to the point that I am making that probably should address a sadly departed poster due to her fondness of lists that contain at least a trio of members. It should also probably contain three lines on my screen so that it will be long enough for people with higher resolutions or a lower zoom level. Maybe even four lines, just to be sure.
And here’s a shorter fourth item.
[list=1][li]This is a multiline long third item that is quite tertiary to the point that I am making that probably should address a sadly departed poster due to her fondness of lists that contain at least a trio of members. It should also probably contain three lines on my screen so that it will be long enough for people with higher resolutions or a lower zoom level. Maybe even four lines, just to be sure.[/li]
[li]And here’s a shorter fourth item.[/ol][/li]
Note that the above contains a bug, BTW. I did type a space between just and [noparse][list][/noparse]. I could probably have fixed it, but I chose not to.
Huh. I tried changing LIST=1 to LIST=3. That had no effect. Same result as you got.
I guess you could delete the text after the first two numbers and replace them with “…” or “not addressed” or something like that. I should think that would be OK.
I had no issue with the numbers within my quotebox being changed but would endorse the “…” solution myself as being most proper in case anyone ever would care.
Funny enough I don’t usually bother with the LIST function and just manually make a list (which would have created no issue for you) … I only did under the peer influence of your formatting in the post I was responding to!
If the left out numbers are short, I agree that the “…” solution is good. But it could get unwieldy if it gets too far down.
And, in case my small text wasn’t clear, I left in the bug rather than working around it, just to show it off. the [noparse][noparse][/noparse] tag seems to have trouble with a bracket preceded by a space–probably because there’s some algorithm that removes spaces before certain tags that doens’t get shut off when [noparse][noparse][/noparse] is used.
As you can see from my previous post, the anti-caps-lock-abuse function messes with quotes in an undesirable way. I quoted a previous poster’s mixed-case text, then added a few words of my own in all caps. Result: the quoted text was changed to all lowercase!
ETA: Actually, not all lowercase. Looks like it keeps capitals after a period. Very odd.
Note his quotes don’t include the clickable arrow. And the “Quoth <name>” part is *inside *the quote box. IOW it’s just text he types in there between two unadorned QUOTE tags.
Yes–I realized that in a sudden burst of aha! before I scrolled down and saw your dissection.
But you lose the pingback–which is the point of the feature, as a quote/cite, to see full context as a post, the status of the conversation back whenever, etc.
