# Italicised "originally posted by ....." in quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 26, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743 "2003-02-26T22:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/1 "2003-02-26T22:05:15Z")
How do you insert the italicised heading “originally posted by…” into a quote in a post? I have looked in vb codes and searched, with no luck. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/2 "2003-02-26T22:26:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auliya \* > \*\*How do you insert the italicised heading “originally posted by…” into a quote in a post? I have looked in vb codes and searched, with no luck. \*\* When you click on the Quote button below the post, like I did for this, the codes are automatically put in the quote. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/4 "2003-02-27T08:56:58Z")
Hitting the “quote” button will show you different little tricks that you want to perform with code. Just find a post where the trick you want to learn is used, hit “quote” and see how they did it. If quoting two sources, you have to type in {i}originally posted by skunkface{/i} the second time. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/5 "2003-02-27T09:00:04Z")
[ul]:eek: [sup] **and always preview!** [/sup][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/6 "2003-02-27T12:33:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JeffB \* > \*\*When you click on the Quote button below the post, like I did for this, the codes are automatically put in the quote. \*\* Thank you all very much for that 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/7 "2003-02-27T19:48:10Z")
mine doesn’t do that, it just comes up like I’m putting it in bold type or something what am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/8 "2003-02-27T19:49:46Z")
[QUOTE] mine doesn’t do that, it just comes up like I’m putting it in bold type or something what am I doing wrong? is that it? ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/9 "2003-02-27T19:53:28Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by greck \* \*\* > [@](#): > > mine doesn’t do that, it just comes up like I’m putting it in bold type or something > what am I doing wrong? > > is that it? \*\* ok, i think I got it now ---
**Author:** ![greck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ab992/32.png) [@greck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greck)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/10 "2003-02-27T19:56:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by greck \* > \*\*i think I got it now \*\* yep, got it ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/11 "2003-03-14T01:00:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kniz \* > \*\*If quoting two sources, you have to type in {i}originally posted by skunkface{/i} the second time. \*\* Actually, you can hit the Quote button on one post, then select all the text in the yet un-sent reply that appears, and copy (Ctrl+C) it to the clipboard. Then go back to the thread, hit the other Quote button, and paste (Ctrl+V) the first quote into the reply. I don’t know if it’s really worth it, but technically, you don’t _have to_ type the \* code into the second one. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/12 "2003-03-14T17:30:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LA without the X \* > **[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by auliya [/i] > [B]How do you insert the italicised heading “originally posted by…” into a quote in a post? I have looked in vb codes and searched, with no luck. [/B][/QUOTE]** That took some snazzy coding and of course I knew how to discover your tricks. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/13 "2003-03-14T21:28:03Z")
I wish there were a Preferences pane that would let me customize the way it formats quotes. I don’t like the quoted text all in bold. I _do_ like the poster’s name in bold. I prefer the “originally posted by” header to be above rather than within the quote bounds. Therefore I usually do it manually. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/14 "2003-03-15T01:33:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **AHunter3** \* > I wish there were a Preferences pane that would let me customize the way it formats quotes. I don’t like the quoted text all in bold. I _do_ like the poster’s name in bold. I prefer the “originally posted by” header to be above rather than within the quote bounds. Therefore I usually do it manually. I used the “quote” function to get this, but deleted the [**b**] and [**/b**] coding from the quoted text and added it in around “AHunter3” – not terribly tough. (Getting the [**b**] and [**/b**] codes to show up right in my text was much harder! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/15 "2003-03-15T05:38:10Z")
**Polycarp** : > [@](#): > > I used the “quote” function to get this, but deleted the \*\* and \*\* coding from the quoted text and added it in around “AHunter3” – not terribly tough. (Getting the \*\* and \*\* codes to show up right in my text was much harder! I just select and copy; I’ve got Control-B set up to create the start bold code and Control-Option-B to create the end bold code (I’m on a Mac so the Control key is usually not doing much of anything), and, similarly, Control i and Control-Option-i start and end italics. Control [ enters the start quote code and Control-Option-[ enters the end quote code. So actually the only time it’s less of a hassle to use the quote button below the post is when it is a poster whose screen name I’m not familiar with, so that I don’t have to make a second journey upscreen to verify the spelling of the poster’s name. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/italicised-originally-posted-by-in-quotes/157743/16 "2003-03-15T05:40:33Z")
hey! :mad: very funny! you _knew_ it was going to do that!