Enhance Your Content with PF's Quotes Editing Tool

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The discussion focuses on how to use the Physics Forums (PF) editing tool to quote text effectively. Users can manually insert quote tags or utilize the green toolbar's quote option. Additionally, it's possible to add citation sources to enhance credibility, although Wikipedia is noted as potentially unreliable. Participants also mention alternative methods for quoting, such as selecting text to open a dialog for quoting or using the 'Insert Quotes...' button. The conversation emphasizes proper quoting techniques to maintain clarity in discussions.
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anorlunda said:
e-bar-goum, What PF editing tool allows you to show the quoted text a box the way you did?
You can manually insert quote tags by typing them
or click on the + in the green toolbar and choose Quote

Note also that you can add the source of the citation:
Wikipedia said:
Wikipedia is not always reliable.
which will look like
Wikipedia said:
Wikipedia is not always reliable.

Next time, please ask this question in the Feedback and Announcements forum, so as not to derail the thread.
 
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anorlunda said:
e-bar-goum, What PF editing tool allows you to show the quoted text a box the way you did?
Put it inside of bb code quote boxes.
Code:
[quote]Stuff you want to quote.[/quote]

Ninja'd. D:
 
anorlunda said:
e-bar-goum, What PF editing tool allows you to show the quoted text a box the way you did?
As an alternative to the other replies in this thread, you can select the text you want to quote, which opens a small dialog with choices 'Quote' and 'Reply'. Click 'Quote'.

At the bottom of the thread, where it says 'Have something to add?' click the 'Insert Quotes...' button.

I followed this procedure to quote what you said earlier in this thread.
 
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