Quoting large blocks of other people's text

[Silent3]

This post isn't Religion/Theology per se, but there's been a fair amount of posting in R/T lately with large blocks of text that are really quotations of other people's text, but the quotations aren't clearly marked as such, except for maybe a link following the quoted words to the actual author's original full text.

There's an easy way to quote large blocks of text, something that works a lot better than pairs of quotation marks, or no markings at all:

div class=excerptText you want to quote/div

(If the left and right brackets in the text above look kind of funny, it's because I'm using pictures of those characters rather than the actual characters -- brackets get parsed as HTML markup by DU's posting software, making it difficult to post about posting.)

Using this div/excerpt markup...

...produces text that looks like this.

This is especially good for
blocks of text that take up
multiple lines.

[MineralMan]

1. K&R, but don't hold your breath.

Seriously...

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. That does look better, and clearly delineates the quotation.

But some of us are just too damn lazy to mess with the HTML lookup table.

[TlalocW]

3. Yeah!

I agree with everything you said, especially here...

This post isn't Religion/Theology per se, but there's been a fair amount of posting in R/T lately with large blocks of text that are really quotations of other people's text, but the quotations aren't clearly marked as such, except for maybe a link following the quoted words to the actual author's original full text.

There's an easy way to quote large blocks of text, something that works a lot better than pairs of quotation marks, or no markings at all:

div class=excerptText you want to quote/div

(If the left and right brackets in the text above look kind of funny, it's because I'm using pictures of those characters rather than the actual characters -- brackets get parsed as HTML markup by DU's posting software, making it difficult to post about posting.)

Using this div/excerpt markup...

...produces text that looks like this.

This is especially good for
blocks of text that take up
multiple lines.

Sorry. I'm bored today. And I wanted to see if it would work.

TlalocW

[kanrok]

4. Just checking

There's an easy way to quote large blocks of text, something that works a lot better than pairs of quotation marks, or no markings at all:

Yep.

It works.

[patrice]

5. K&R Clarity is revolutionary! Power to the people!