# How do you do imbedded quotes?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096
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**Created:** [September 20, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096 "2020-09-20T20:00:33Z")
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/1 "2020-09-20T20:00:33Z")
Say I want to quote someone. Easy enough; just highlight the desired text and click the Quote bubble. But what if I want to quote someone’s post, where that person has quoted someone?
Before, it would be [quote=Person 2][quote=Person 1]Text of quoted person][/quote]Text of response[/quote]. Or something like that. How do I do that on the new board?
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/2 "2020-09-20T20:05:12Z")
You just need to put all of the quote tags on their own separate line.
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
>
> > [@Person 2](#):
> >
> > > [@Person 1](#):
> > >
> > > Text of quoted person]
> >
> > Text of response
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/3 "2020-09-20T20:06:13Z")
Instead of highlighting just the text you want, click “reply”. Then in the reply box, click the little word-bubble icon. The whole post, including the embedded quotes, will show up in the edit box.
Then remove whatever parts you don’t want.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/4 "2020-09-20T20:06:53Z")
Or this.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/5 "2020-09-21T00:12:11Z")
I’m not following. Can I have a step-by-step? It doesn’t seem intuitive.
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/6 "2020-09-21T03:48:57Z")
All I did was take your exact text and put each quote tag on its own separate line.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/7 "2020-09-21T04:45:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
>
> I’m not following. Can I have a step-by-step? It doesn’t seem intuitive.
>
> > [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> > All I did was take your exact text and put each quote tag on its own separate line.
OK, I think I got it.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/8 "2020-09-21T04:55:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Before, it would be [quote=Person 2][quote=Person 1]Text of quoted person][/quote]Text of response[/quote]. Or something like that. How do I do that on the new board?
Where you had the above, have this instead:
> [@](#):
>
> Before, it would be
> [quote=Person 2]
> [quote=Person 1]
> Text of quoted person]
> [/quote]
> Text of response
> [/quote]
> . Or something like that. How do I do that on the new board?
and then it appears as engineer\_comp\_geek shows in Post #2 above.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/9 "2020-09-22T13:51:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
>
> OK, I think I got it.
If you see any post by anyone that has whatever sort of magic formatting you need, just click the [reply] button to that post then the word balloon to quote the whole thing. Then you can see what they did. Finally, cancel your reply and go about your posting with the new knowledge.
e.g.
If you want to see how I did this instead of ~~that~~ , just click reply to this post the do a full quote & read my markup/markdown, then cancel your reply.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/10 "2020-09-22T13:57:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
>
> e.g.
> If you want to see how I did this instead of ~~that~~ , just click reply to this post the do a full quote & read my markup/markdown, then cancel your reply
I did just that, then came back to mention how I always feel a twinge of grief when I cancel a reply and have to “abandon” it.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/11 "2020-09-22T14:11:55Z")
insert and delete! Seriously?!
Oh well, I guess we won’t see any other colors.
How about small or large font?
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/12 "2020-09-22T15:09:28Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> insert and delete! Seriously?!
>
> Oh well, I guess we won’t see any other colors.
> …
Depending on which UI style your audience is using and whether on a phone or a computer, your audience may see insert as **bold** and delete as ~~strikethough~~ , both with no color. Or they may see them as green and pink highlighter respectively. Or maybe something else altogether.
> [@puzzlegal](#):
>
> …
> How about small or large font?
Easy Peasy.
You can go 3 steps of small, smaller, smallest .
But only one of Big, Not Bigger (but should be).
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/13 "2020-09-22T15:21:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
>
> …
> But only one of Big, Not Bigger (but should be).
Actually I screwed up that example. It’s still true that big only goes up one size and nested \\ tags don’t do anything. But I didn’t nest the markup to correctly match the words. The example should have been:
But only one of Big, Not Bigger (but should be).
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### Author:  [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/14 "2020-09-22T15:46:59Z")
# Header sizes
## Header sizes
### Header sizes
#### Header sizes
##### Header sizes
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/15 "2020-09-22T16:46:21Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> > [@LSLGuy](#):
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > > If you want to see how I did this instead of ~~that~~ , just click reply to this post the do a full quote & read my markup/markdown, then cancel your reply
>
> I did just that, then came back to mention how I always feel a twinge of grief when I cancel a reply and have to “abandon” it.
Testing.
Well that’s easier than I expected.
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/16 "2020-09-22T16:46:31Z")
Cool. Which can only change size at the paragraph break.
# Blah blah with header 1
**Blah blah with big & bold**
It appears that Big and H1 are the same size, at least in the theme I’m using. And that the headers are the same stroke-weight as bold.
#### blah blah with Header 4
**Blah blah with normal text but bold**
And H4 appears to be the same size as normal. So H2 & H3 are intermediate sizes we can get no other way.
You can also use bold and italics within a header, which makes for super-bold.
# Header 1 with some _italic_ and some **bolded** text embedded
### Header 3 with some _italic_ and some **bolded** text embedded
As between small, smaller, and smallest versus headers …
##### Blah blah with Header 5
**Blah blah in small and bold**
So small is slightly smaller than H5 is.
Such dumb fun.
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### Author:  [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-do-imbedded-quotes/921096/17 "2020-10-22T20:28:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Cool. Which can only change size at the paragraph break.
>
> # Blah blah with header 1
>
> **Blah blah with big & bold**
Just testing the imbedded reply. Nothing to see here.