I have noticed that the current bulletin board software places a space in some words when a segment of text is enclosed in quotes, like this segment form a post I made elsewhere:
The word “_netdev” appears erroneously as “_netd ev”. This is very misleading and if the person I was advising used the code as it appears in the quotation, the code would not work.
This is not an isolated instance associated only with the word _netdev. It seems to me that it occurs fairly often and seems to me to attach itself to words at random.
The remedy seems to be to rearrange the words by editing the text. This is not practicable if you are quoting code, because code can’t be rearranged in 99% of cases. The only remedy then is to place a footnote explaining to reader/s to be careful of the typo introduced erroneously by the bulletin board.
Which is excellent result, thanks. As a modaerator, it still concerns me. There are many newbies to the board who (like me) just wrap without looking. I’m happy for my own usage now, thanks to you. But they will still get the errors. So I’ll leave this thread as a warning FWIW.
> Which is excellent result, thanks. As a modaerator, it still concerns
> me. There are many newbies to the board who (like me) just wrap without
> looking. I’m happy for my own usage now, thanks to you. But they will
> still get the errors. So I’ll leave this thread as a warning FWIW.
FYI I looked into BBCODE (which vB uses here) and what I found doesn’t
address this issue specifically, but it kind of does in general. The QUOTE
tags apparently can do some formatting of the information inside
them. If you want something displayed exactly as you typed it, you should
use CODE tags.
