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Fergus Duniho (Fduniho)
Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 3:59 pm:   

This forum needs to be fixed to allow the use of greater-than and less-than signs in text. In my first message titled "Teams of Players," I entered the characters themselves, and it read it as an HTML code that shouldn't be displayed. In the second message under the same name, I used the HTML codes for greater-than and less-than signs, but it displayed the codes instead of the signs.

Also, this forum has no real preview. As soon as I hit, "Preview/Post Message," it posted the message. We should be allowed to preview messages before posting them.
Jeff Mallett (Jeffm)
Posted on Thursday, November 28, 2002 - 6:41 pm:   

Hi,

I haven't ever had any trouble previewing without posting (and I've previewed this particular message a lot.) The only button that posts is the one that says, "Post this Message". Make sure you hit "Preview/Post Message" instead if you just want to preview.

I've corrected your previous message post with the intended symbols.

The greater-than and less-than symbols seem to work individually, but sometimes do some funny processing when paired as a tag. There's probably already some special and easy way to enter them, but I don't know it. So I made a brand-new way:

Type \ch{<} for a <
Type \ch{>} for a >

That way you can enter tags, e.g.
<blah>
Jeff Mallett (Jeffm)
Posted on Friday, December 13, 2002 - 5:55 pm:   

I think I figured out your preview problem. If you go to Utilities:Edit Profile on the right side and click to edit your Preferences, there is a checkbox for:

"Skip the preview screen when posting"

Maybe you have that checked.

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