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#148591 - 09/30/05 10:01 PM Tips for Newcomers
Jackie Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 9643 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Welcome to AWADtalk; we're glad that you have joined us. Here is information which will help you to learn your way around. You can find out all kinds of things, like how people chose their nicknames, and how you acquire board titles, and modes of reading the board, by following this link (many thanks to jmh for compiling them): http://maxqnzs.com/Hints.html And this link will take you to a discussion of certain conventions adopted by the board members, and why we've adopted them: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=17030 Here are some commonly used linguistics abbreviations: IE Indo-European (as in the IE lgs) PIE Proto-Indo-European (as in the hypothetical ancestor of the IE lgs) OE Old English ME Middle English NE / PDE Modern English (New English and Present Day English) OFr, MFr, Fr Old, Middle, and Modern French Gk Greek Skt Sanskrit L Latin adj adjective sb substantive / noun adv adverb vb verb
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#167570 - 04/16/07 01:56 AM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 8744 Loc: this too shall pass	Much of the information in the Hints file listed above has been OBE in the newer Wordsmith Talk forums. It might be helpful to newcomers for us to cover some of the old FAQs here. One question or complaint that often comes up regards the inability to add white space to or otherwise format text. This can be accomplished via use of "code" markup tags, which are equivalent to HTML <pre> (preformat) tags. When you "reply" to a post, one of the post options you are given is the # button (Wrap some text in code tags). This inserts a code pair into the reply field and you can then format the text any way you like between the code tags. Code: like this for example. Edited by tsuwm (04/16/07 02:00 AM)
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#167575 - 04/16/07 06:46 AM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: tsuwm]
BranShea BranShea Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 2098 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Please Tsuwm, I just experienced that something can go really wrong when you wrap up a larger text just like that. I could delete two mishaps through 'threaded mode'but the last out of order one sticks for good (bad, I mean) _________________________ above all shadows rides the sun (JRRT)
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#167576 - 04/16/07 06:58 AM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: tsuwm]
Faldage Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 11613	Also, it is possible to put in your text, highlight it and then add the code tags Code: like this even This saves trying to squeeze in between the opening and closing tags, which can be a problem for some of us geezers.
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#167578 - 04/16/07 08:08 AM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: Faldage]
BranShea BranShea Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 2098 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Geezer, feminine form: gezeera , definitely from Sanskrit, has restored mishaps and misunderstoods. _________________________ above all shadows rides the sun (JRRT)
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#167581 - 04/16/07 09:47 AM

Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: BranShea]

tsuwm

Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 8744
Loc: this too shall pass

just how much code are you trying to do? (notice the scroll bar)

Code:


i have found what you are like
        the rain,

                (Who feathers frightened fields
        with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields

        easily the pale club of the wind
        and swirled justly souls of flower strike

        the air in utterable coolness

        deeds of green thrilling light
                                      with thinned

        newfragile yellows

                          lurch and.press

        -in the woods
                     which
                          stutter
                                 and

                                    sing

        And the coolness of your smile is
        stirringofbirds between my arms;but
        i should rather than anything
        have(almost when hugeness will shut
        quietly)almost,
                       your kiss
                                            e.e.cummings

Edited by tsuwm (04/16/07 09:50 AM)

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#167588 - 04/16/07 01:42 PM

Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: tsuwm]

BranShea Offline

Pooh-Bah

Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 2098
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague

The scroll bar is quite essential to use this code well.Missed that part at first.
Thanks you for inf . and e.e. cummings. Now see if this works
.

Think I got it. Yes!

Code:

THE MAD GARDENERS SONG

He thought he saw an elephant
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
a letter from his wife.
"At lenght I realise, "he said,
The bitterness of life!"

He thought he saw a Buffalo
Upon the chimney-piece:
He looked again, and found it was
His Sister's Husband's niece.
"Unless you leave this house, "he said,
Ï'll send for the police!"

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek :
He looked again, and found it was 
The Middle of Next Week.
"The one thing I regret," he said
Ïs that it cannot speak!"
 
From a nonsense rhyme by C.L. Dodgson.

Edited by BranShea (04/16/07 01:48 PM)

_________________________
above all shadows rides the sun (JRRT)

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#172742 - 01/21/08 08:06 PM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: Jackie]
Bigwig Rabbit Bigwig Rabbit newbie Registered: 11/22/07 Posts: 31 Loc: California, USA	The links to conventions and how people chose their nicknames gives me a 404 error. Is it me? _________________________ http://shooper60.googlepages.com/home
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#172747 - 01/21/08 09:06 PM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: Bigwig Rabbit]
etaoin etaoin Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 6099 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: Bigwig Rabbit The links to conventions and how people chose their nicknames gives me a 404 error. Is it me? nope, it's not you. the boardware's been changed since that thread, and the url is wrong now. I'm working on finding it again.
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#172752 - 01/21/08 09:17 PM Re: Tips for Newcomers [Re: etaoin]
Bigwig Rabbit Bigwig Rabbit newbie Registered: 11/22/07 Posts: 31 Loc: California, USA	Thanks. I'll monitor the thread. I'll be patient too. _________________________ http://shooper60.googlepages.com/home
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