Posting Help: Solving System Timeouts

[JM]

I really need help with posting. When writing a long answer to a post the systems times me out and makes me log in again. sometimes it keeps what I had written and enters it, but just now it erased all of what I had painstakingly created and I need to start all over again. Isnt there some way to transfer something I can write on my word processor, where there is no time limit, to the message box without having to completely re write it?
JM

 

[micromass]

Whenever you log in, make sure you check the box "Remember Me". This way you won't get logged out.

 

[JM]

Thanks, micromass, I'll try it.

 

[jtbell]

Isnt there some way to transfer something I can write on my word processor,

Simply copy and paste. I sometimes do this with long posts, but I use a plain text editor: TextEdit on Mac OS. Notepad or something similar for Windows will do the job just fine.

 

[Borek]

Also getting back in your browser history can help - most modern browsers remember content of the edit field before submitting it to the site. So after you are logged out and asked to log again - do it, then after being shown an empty edit filed go back in the history till you see the same edit field - but containing your post. Submitting it at this moment should work, as "logged in" cookie is already present.

 

[JM]

Thanks for all the ideas.
Now two more things: 1. how do I show a squared symbol without the sup tags showing?^{22 2. How do I work the multi-qoute so my answer appears in a clear space instead of the shaded space wherre the quote is?
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[Borek]

[noparse]10²[/noparse] -> 10²

[noparse]

This is a quote.

[/noparse] ->

This is a quote.

And text here is not a quote.

 

[JM]

->so now is it clear.

[noparse]10²[/noparse] -> 10²

[noparse][/noparse] ->

-> 10²->

And text here is not a quote.

Just practicing to see if I got it.
JM

 

[JM]

Borak- Nope I don't got it. Do I add the -> after the sup2sup so the sups don't appear in the posted reply?
What I'm trying to do is to add my comments in a clear area between the sections of quoted material. I don't see how to do it.
JM

 

[jtbell]

Borak- Nope I don't got it. Do I add the -> after the sup2sup so the sups don't appear in the posted reply?

His -> is simply a shorthand for "gives you". If you enter the code that he showed before the ->, you should see what he showed after the ->, when the posted message appears on the screen.

What I'm trying to do is to add my comments in a clear area between the sections of quoted material. I don't see how to do it.

When you hit the "quote" button, you get a message-composition window with the quoted message pasted in, with a [noparse]

[/noparse] tag before it and a [noparse]

[/noparse] tag after it. To split it into two quotes and insert your own comments in between:

1. Click at the point where you want to split.

2. Type in a [noparse][/quote][/noparse] tag to end the first section, which starts at the original [noparse]

[/noparse] tag.

3. Type in your comments.

4. Type in a [noparse]

[/noparse] tag to begin the second section, which ends at the original [noparse]

[/noparse] tag.

Edit by Borek: Following comment is no longer true - there are [nоparse][/nоparse] tags that can be used to format posts in such situations. Above part of the post corrected.

Very important note: actual "unquote" tags have a forward slash "/" in them, not a backward slash "\". I had to use backward slashes in my instructions so that the forum software wouldn't interpret them as real quote tags and make hash out of my post. :yuck: So when you do it, replace my backward slashes with forward slashes.

 

[JM]

His -> is simply a shorthand for "gives you". If you enter the code that he showed before the ->, you should see what he showed after the ->, when the posted message appears on the screen.

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When you hit the "quote" button, you get a message-composition window with the quoted message pasted in, with a [noparse][/noparse] tag after it. To split it into two quotes and insert your own comments in between:

1. Click at the point where you want to split.

2. Type in a [noparse]

[/noparse] tag to end the first section, which starts at the original [noparse]

[/noparse] tag.

3. Type in your comments.

I had been using the icons, but now I think to type the breaks myself. Is it working?

4. Type in a [noparse][/noparse] tag.

Edit by Borek: Following comment is no longer true - there are [nоparse][/nоparse] tags that can be used to format posts in such situations. Above part of the post corrected.

Very important note: actual "unquote" tags have a forward slash "/" in them, not a backward slash "\". I had to use backward slashes in my instructions so that the forum software wouldn't interpret them as real quote tags and make hash out of my post. :yuck: So when you do it, replace my backward slashes with forward slashes.

 

[micromass]

10³

No, you're forgetting the / in the last . You should type

[noparse]10[SUP]2[/SUP][/noparse]

Click on the x² above your posting window to see what you should do.

 

[JM]

[noparse]10²[/noparse] -> 10²

[noparse][/noparse] ->



And text here is not a quote.

OK the quote part works. But I used uc, let's try lc.
10⁴

 

[JM]

OK the quote part works. But I used uc, let's try lc.
10⁴

^{Does it have to be italic?
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[JM]

Micromass. Thanks I think I got it now.
JM

 

[jtbell]

there are [nоparse][/nоparse] tags

Aha, thank you! I wasn't aware of that, and was wondering how you managed to get the tags to show in your post.