That you need just the “B” to do bold
Damn what a cheap 100th post…
Um… happy 100! I guess… 
Welcome, BTW!
And have you learned that vB code can screw up proper quotation format?
Let’s assume (without me having any idea) that you aren’t one of those people–those awfulpeople–who quote the whole damn post when all they need is one part of a sentence. For example, say I want to quote part of the following:
Yadda yadda, etcetera etcetera, it is therefore evident that Evil Forest Gnomes are controlling the Bush Administration.
I just want to make vicious fun of the conclusion (“What’s evident is that Evil Forest Gnomes have removed your brain.”) so I don’t need to quote the whole frigging sentence–all I need is the last part. The proper way to do that is to capitalize the first letter (the “i” in this case) and enclose it in brackets (ie. )–this means the capitalization has been added by the quoter:
You will notice that I have used {} instead of in the quotation, and that’s where the problem comes in. If you use the right brackets to enclose an I, you get:
The vB code reads it as a command to italicize…or bold (boldize?) with a B, or underscore with a U–and it amputates the letter from the quotation, too. In other words, you can’tuse the proper form with those letters–you have to either resort to {} or leave them uncapitalized. This is the sort of thing that gives semi-anal legal-types such as myself heartburn, high blood pressure, and a tendency to grind our teeth, and I REALLY wish somebody would Do Something About It.
There, Reeder, your thread is now educational…or maybe nuts. Happy hundred.
Wow! You deserve the Galactic Institute’s Prize for Extreme Cleverness for that!
Actually, just clever enough to remember a neat trick that someone else (whose name I have forgotten) came up with.
Damn, zgy–I’m impressed. Thanks.
Sorry, just hijacking for a sig test.