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Journal RockDoctor's Journal: Slash-ML quotes. 11

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The comment entry box proclaims that

"blockquote" Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

, and

"quote" Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

are accepted, but according to my regular HTML references "quote" has been deprecated (since 3.2?) for "q" Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.. So, how does Slash mangle them?

I've never used the ecode formatting before either. How does that look?

<b>"ecode"</b> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

.

How does that look?

So, "blockquote" indents and left-side bar ; greyed text ; "quote" indents more, left side bar, regular text colour ; "q" is ignored ; "ecode" indents, side-bars, greys, and monospaces. I'll just stick with "blockquote".

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  • If curious how it looks in some rando's browser (current FF): https://i.imgur.com/OMBR9g6.pn... [imgur.com]

    Agreed that blockquote seems most suitable for general quoting purposes.
    • A while ago (last year, some time) someone bitched at me for something about "superfluous stuff [associated with [blockquote]". I still can't see WTF he was wibbling on about, but nobody can say I've not tried the options. I infer that the complainant uses an unusual browser, or some very weird settings.
  • Blockquote is kinda faded.
    • It's till in HTML as the block-level element for quoting large blocks of text. What it actually looks like, is, of course, the Slashdot site designer's choice.

      Since the standard HTML element "q" has no effect, then clearly the Slashdot designers don't want it to be used. Without the "quote" element (not HTML) that leaves the "blockquote" element as the only one available for indicating (semantically) quoted text. Though I suppose there is always the cite citation markup. But that isn't included in the lis

      • Slashcode is such a weird relic of the 90s. But, then, I'm working on learning LaTeX for my thesis, so GO RETRO!
        • I've considered learning LaTeX on occasions - but that would just make it about my 6th or 10th major word processing package. If the client (or work ) supplies or dictates a word processor, you use it. Ditto spreadsheets, mapping packages, plotting packages ... it's one of the reasons that in my own life I stopped using Windows and a different version of Word every works laptop / windows version, and moved to using OpenOffice as a "portable" application.

          IIRC, LaTeX uses various human-parsable text element

          • LaTeX is a typesetting, not a word processing, system. TeX is a low-level engine; LaTeX is a set of macros to tame TeX. You can take it for a spin in the browser via https://www.overleaf.com/ [overleaf.com]
            • Yeah. I'll give that a pass. When (if) I need to learn it, I'll learn it. It wouldn't be more than about the tenth such I've had to learn over the years. Let's see, there was one system (I never learned it's name) on the mainframe at uni ; then when we got a departmental computer, that had a type-setting system too. Completely different. The 98xx series at my first work had a third system. Replaced by Word-for-DOS which we had to double up with Excel on Windows-286 (so obviously, we had to exit Windows-286
              • Probably some troff variant on that mainframe.
                • The name rings bells. I remember having to spend days editing my thesis "on teletype" (glass teletype, if one was available ; paper teletype if not) before being able to book a slot on the daisy-wheel printer to actually "run it off" as hard copy for handing in. That was a 20 minute walk through town from the Geology Department to the Computing Department for my session on the daisy wheel.

    • kinda faded.

      Oh, hang on - you meant literally "faded"? Sorry, I got tripped up by that word being used as a generic insult by the under-30s.

      The "fade" effect is what I meant by "greyed". I guess that means that somewhere in the background Slashcode is using some bits of CSS, but if that's the case then the early Slashcode was also managing to achieve the same effect, when CSS support was (IIRC) quite experimental.

      As always, I wonder how that "greyed" (your "faded") effect would be rendered by a braille b

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