Thread: How to double quote

I tried to find out how to put two quotes in one reply. I've seen it done many times but I myself can't figure out how to do it.
Please explain how it is done. Thanks.

I do it this way:
Find the first response you want to quote and click the "Multiquote" button. This button never seems to display correctly on my setup, instead the words plus a little red cross appears, indicatnig a failed image on the page. The button still works though.
Find the next response you want to quote and hit the button for that response.
Repeat for as many messages you wish to quote.
Next hit the Post Reply button and the usual textbox pops up for you to respond, with all the quotes you chose above magically appearing.
Format and edit as you wish.

I can't remember what you do to quote only parts of a response (other than to delete as you format and edit). I seem to remember that you could do that by highlighting the parts of the message you want to quote before hitting the multiquote button, but I may have imagine that!

Hope this helps.
M.

Originally Posted by majurey

I do it this way:
Find the first response you want to quote and click the "Multiquote" button. This button never seems to display correctly on my setup, instead the words plus a little red cross appears, indicatnig a failed image on the page. The button still works though.
Find the next response you want to quote and hit the button for that response.
Repeat for as many messages you wish to quote.
Next hit the Post Reply button and the usual textbox pops up for you to respond, with all the quotes you chose above magically appearing.
Format and edit as you wish.

I can't remember what you do to quote only parts of a response (other than to delete as you format and edit). I seem to remember that you could do that by highlighting the parts of the message you want to quote before hitting the multiquote button, but I may have imagine that!

Hope this helps.
M.

Originally Posted by Nicolas

I tried to find out how to put two quotes in one reply. I've seen it done many times but I myself can't figure out how to do it.
Please explain how it is done. Thanks.

Yes it helped. Thanks!!

You might also find it of use to learn more about "vB code". vB code is what controls many of the features available when posting... including quotes, code, bold, italics, underscore, etc.

You can view the vB codes by clicking the "vB code" link in the "vB code is on" line of the Posting Rules box located at the bottom left of every page. Essentially it is a scheme where keywords contained within brackets define a function. [X] enables a function, [/X] disables it.

So for example, to create a quote box, you'd type [quote] quoted text [/quote] and the "quoted text" would appear in the quote box... eg,

quoted text

.

Likewise, [b] quoted text [/b] makes "quoted text" appear in bold. You can nest them... eg, [quote][b] quoted text [/b][/quote] to get

quoted text

And so forth.

If you have SRP active on your desktop twice you can switch from one page to another one, click the quote button of the post you want to quote, delete what you don't want and copy everything that's left, and paste it where you want. The advantage over Azjoe's way of doing it is that you also keep the name of the poster in your quote.

Originally Posted by Kees

If you have SRP active on your desktop twice you can switch from one page to another one, click the quote button of the post you want to quote, delete what you don't want and copy everything that's left, and paste it where you want. The advantage over Azjoe's way of doing it is that you also keep the name of the poster in your quote.

I wasn't suggesting anyone use vB codes in place of the way they currently do things. But when you wish to to do something a little special you often have to know what the vB codes do so you can insert them in the correct spots to get the effect you want.

Incidentally, all of the features available via buttons and/or multiquote simply place the appropriate vB code in your edit window. Most of us run with the WYSIWIG editor, but if you click the button in the upper right corner of the edit window(above the smilies) you'll switch to the advanced editor that shows all of these codes as they are in your message (click again and you'll return to the comfort of the WYSIWYG editor).

Oh, and btw, if you want to have a quote assigned to someone, in vB code it's, eg, :
[quote=Horsepucky] Horsepucky's quoted text. [/quote]

Which yields...

Originally Posted by Horsepucky

Horsepucky's quoted text.

An example of something special... often someone posts multiple questions in one post. I like to respond to each of them individually... so I multiquote the original post. I then insert [quote] and [/quote] as needed throughout the text deposited by the multiquote to break it up and insert my replies accordingly.

For example...
If the original post was

Originally Posted by someone

question 1

question 2

question 3

I might quote it and then break it up with my answers interspersed as follows in the edit window. The green items are the vB codes I'd need to add:

[quote=someone]
question 1[/quote]
my response to question 1

[quote=someone]
question 2[/quote]
my response to question 2

[quote=someone]
question 3[/quote]
my response to question 3

This would yield the following looking reply:
________________________________________

Originally Posted by someone

question 1

my response to question 1

Originally Posted by someone

question 2

my response to question 2

Originally Posted by someone

question 3

my response to question 3

I see . . . I can spend a lot more time here than I already do

Thanks anyway, I will look into it.

actually i am a firm believer that WYSIWYG editing is slower than typing. Even with my special kbd with trackpoint. Using 10 fingers to type is so much faster than anything else.... Add to that a couple of shortkeys to navigate through the text and it's just amazing.... But it's true that not all of us live in ed/vi/emacs/LaTeX land, so WYSWYG editors are doing pretty well.

Originally Posted by gugi

actually i am a firm believer that WYSIWYG editing is slower than typing. Even with my special kbd with trackpoint. Using 10 fingers to type is so much faster than anything else.... Add to that a couple of shortkeys to navigate through the text and it's just amazing.... But it's true that not all of us live in ed/vi/emacs/LaTeX land, so WYSWYG editors are doing pretty well.

HUH?!