# Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 27, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736 "2021-12-27T18:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 38
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/751 "2025-04-16T16:35:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If you start to create a test post and look at the preview before you save, you’ll see that in the preview they do appear as numbered footnotes at the end of the post. > > They just don’t look that way (at all) in your actual post once you click [Save]. As you say, they’re more inline notes. Well that is not optimal. It might not even be good. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/752 "2025-04-16T20:00:56Z")
It’s not. It’s dumb. But as @pjd said, it’s a toggle switch on the Discourse SDMB control panel. if only there was somebody with authority to flip it we’d be in business. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/753 "2025-04-21T17:22:21Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/754 "2025-05-06T09:49:59Z")
Disregard ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/755 "2025-05-06T11:20:01Z")
Spoiler vs Details? **Wordle 1,417 3/6 — 2025-05-06 Tue** ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **REDACTED** **REDACTED** **REDACTED** **REDACTED** **Wordle 1,417 3/6 — 2025-05-06 Tue** ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Using the Details tag** > > **REDACTED** [Details=“Using the Details tag”] **REDACTED** **REDACTED** **REDACTED** **REDACTED** [/Details] Apparently, Details is only one line at a time whereas with Spoiler you can do multiple lines? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/756 "2025-05-06T11:44:54Z")
> **No...** > > You need to make > sure that the detail tags are > on their own line. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/757 "2025-05-06T15:04:26Z")
> **OK...** > > So I need to make > sure that the detail tags are > on their own line? I see. OK thank you. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/758 "2025-05-11T22:12:19Z")
@ParallelLines (or anyone else who sees this) hey, man. I looked up and saw you posted very recently. could you do me a favor and reply to this post, so I get a little number that upper right icon? I’m going to tweak the color on it in my tweaker scripts, as it is the wrong color (as @puzzlegal noted) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/759 "2025-05-11T22:29:01Z")
Here’s a reply for ya ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/760 "2025-05-11T23:16:23Z")
Sorry I failed you @BigT - I was about to reply when my step-mom called back after I left her a message for Mother’s day. And I love this board, but, well, needs must. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/761 "2025-05-11T23:35:59Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Sorry I failed you @BigT - I was about to reply when my step-mom called back after I left her a message for Mother’s day. And I love this board, but, well, needs must. 😉 ⁢ I totally understand. I just picked you because I thought a mod (especially a newer one who was probably brought on to be more available) would be most likely to be on, and I’d seen you’d posted very recently. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/762 "2025-05-12T00:35:48Z")
List One 1. This 2. That 3. The other thing List Two 1.\ Tom 2. Dick 3. Harry Okay – how do I get it to keep the list at the left margin, but not show the backslash? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/763 "2025-05-12T09:16:32Z")
1. Good 2. question 3. will 4. close 5. parens 6. align 7. the 8. list 9. to 10. the 11. left? Is that aligned left? Negative. I manually entered the numbers, and the close parens were converted to periods. If you quote it you will see. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/764 "2025-05-12T09:49:44Z")
If you mean like this… List Two 1. Tom 2. Dick 3. Harry …and you are okay with manually formatting it, put the slash in between the number and the period on each line. Like this: List Two 1\. Tom 2\. Dick 3\. Harry ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/765 "2025-05-12T11:22:04Z")
It seems that you only need the backslash after the first number. ```auto List Two 1\. Tom 2. Dick 3. Harry ``` List Two 1. Tom 2. Dick 3. Harry ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/766 "2025-05-12T11:44:08Z")
The standard Discourse (Markdown actually) list format is indented and self-numbering. You make every entry start with “1.” and it will render the correct numbers. So you can edit, add, rearrange, etc. your entries and it’ll still come out correctly numbered. If you’re putting your own distinct numbers on each row, your only challenge is _stopping_ the auto recognition that you’re creating an auto-numbering and therefor auto-indenting list. For myself, I find that Edge is “smart” enough to self-enter auto-incrementing numbers for me after I’ve started a numbered list with “1.”. So now I’ve got two automation systems fighting each other. Gaah!! Mom, make it _stop!_ ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/767 "2025-05-12T12:09:04Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The standard Discourse (Markdown actually) list format is indented and self-numbering. You make every entry start with “1.” and it will render the correct numbers. So you can edit, add, rearrange, etc. your entries and it’ll still come out correctly numbered. But it still comes out indented. It wasn’t indented when I typed it. It’s like the double space between sentences – I don’t think I’m wrong to want the text to appear just as I wrote it, without being edited by the software.. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/768 "2025-05-12T12:28:07Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > But it still comes out indented. It wasn’t indented when I typed it. It’s like the double space between sentences – I don’t think I’m wrong to want the text to appear just as I wrote it, without being edited by the software.. Sorta. When you type \*\*bolding\*\* do you want to see the asterisks, or the **bolding**? The answer is almost certainly that you want Discourse to convert two asterisks to bolding. The problem comes in with the more advanced formatting features that people don’t know about and inadvertently trigger. Like the one that indents lists. I know how to create both an indented and an unindented list. The commands are different and both are arbitrary in some way. Just as two asterisks signalling bold is arbitrary. Just a more familiar form of arbitrary. Admittedly Discourse formatting is a bit of a dog’s breakfast because it honors a subset of HTML \, a subset of BBCode [whatever] which itself is a historical safe subset of HTML, _and_ it honors Markdown which is a completely different approach to applying formatting to text using inline codes. To boot it even honors LaTex for math formula formatting. That’s quite a Swiss Army knife and it’s easy to cut yourself on the fish scaler while trying to use the Phillips screw driver. A fish scaler you didn’t know existed. > [@SCAdian](#): > > It’s like the double space between sentences Actually, it’s not. At least not from the tech POV. The original standard for HTML _demands_ that all browsers everywhere _display_ a run of spaces as a single space. You can create the appearance of multiple spaces by using a special character that, per the standard, is _not_ compressed if duplicated. More trouble than it’s worth though. Like you, I personally would prefer that the HTML standard had allowed “period followed by two spaces” to be displayed exactly as “period followed by two spaces”. But that didn’t happen 40 years ago when the standard was being written. So we’re stuck with it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/769 "2025-05-12T18:10:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Actually, it’s not. At least not from the tech POV. The original standard for HTML _demands_ that all browsers everywhere _display_ a run of spaces as a single space. And which is it when it deletes the fourth dot if you type an ellipsis (omitted words, or a sentence trailing off) followed by a period (end of sentence)? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/770 "2025-05-12T19:00:36Z")
That I do not know for certain. I suspect it is a Discourseism, not an HTML standard. I do know that “… .” is rendered accurately. So that’s what I use for ending a sentence with an ellipsis: a 3-dot ellipsis, a space, then a single dot for the period. Personally I’ve always found the 4-dot ellipsis to be a confusing thing to read. It looks much more like a mistake than a planned rendering. I admit that’s just me, not a typographical standard or custom. I see the 4-dot ellipsis as a bit like other ligatures, e.g. “pædiatrics”: a quaint holdover from antiquated notions of stylish typography from the pre-computer era. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736.md?page=39)