RoyCook
2003-10-06 14:16:30 |
Help (Stupid question)
Dear all,
I was submitting a problem and could not figure out how to get it to skip a line between paragraphs (I hit return twice, as one would do, but the preview showed it all as one single paragraph). The problem I was writing up will really look better if I can figure out how to do this. I realize that this is a silly thing not to be able to figure out, but any help would be appreciated.
Roy |
Tristan
2003-10-06 14:21:12 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
All you need to do is put a to skip two lines and
to skip one line. I also had the same problem about a week ago. If this is somehow not enough, you can look at the thread called "problem with submitting". |
Tristan
2003-10-06 14:23:22 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Darn, I wasn't expecting the html codes to work here. Well, to explain again, <p.> is to skip two lines and <br.> is to skip one. Don't include the periods if you actually want the codes to work.
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DJ
2003-10-07 01:41:05 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
To be more neat, put <p> for a paragraph (2 lines) and <br> for a line break. Selected HTML codes work in all the text-entry boxes (comments, forums, problems, and solutions) on the page, but only the comments and forums automatically convert your carriage returns into line breaks. In a problem or solution, you have to insert them manually.
For example, typing:
something<br>other thing<p>whee!
will show up as:
something
other thing
whee!
Other codes work, such as bold (<b>bold</b>), italics(<i>italics</i>), and underline (<u>underline</u>). See the HTML thread in the forum for more, and there will soon be a FAQ page with all these codes (and the answer to questions like this), on the site.
Hope that helps.
=) |
RoyCook
2003-10-07 10:04:35 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Thanks for the help. I am one of these people who teaches courses proving that Turing machines (i.e. digital computers) can and cannot in principle do certain things, yet I am ignorant of how to actually get real life examples of such machines to do very simple things like this! So thanks again. |
Gamer
2003-10-07 17:22:21 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Question for DJ: How do you type in the hytml codes here all normal? I haven't succeeded, they all end up
looking like this instead. |
SilverKnight
2003-10-07 20:07:42 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Hmmmm..... I think it's SCHOLAR POWER! ;-) |
TomM
2003-10-07 20:30:18 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
It's been a while since I coded HTML by hand for more than an occasional bold or font, but as I recall, if you want to include a tag as text rather than as an HTML instruction, you simply "escape" it by preceeding it with the proper character (Which specific character, I forget). Alternatively, you could use the ISO character codes for the beginning bracket (<): instead of typing the bracket, type either its ascii code #60 or its ISO description lt between an ampersand (&) and a semicolon (;). Testing: (the left side of the = contains a white space which breaks the ISO code) & #60; = < < ; = < |
TomM
2003-10-07 20:37:28 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Hmm.. That last equation should read & lt; = < Apparently in the second attempt, where I put the space at the end, the code was complete except for the semicolon, and levik's parser added that "forgotten" semicolon onto the end. Nice detail under normal circumstances, but a little confusing in this context.
BTW the "lt" is lower-case LT: it stands for less than. |
DJ
2003-10-08 02:04:28 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Yeah, there's nothing special about being a scholar, really, just a little HTML manipulation. To make the < show up, I type in <. Then, to make the ampersand (&) show up in <, I type in &. I've never heard of an escape character for HTML tags, but that of course doesn't mean that one can't exist. That's usually how tags are written out; the opening < is replaced by <.
Now I just hope this whole message shows up the way I want it to. |
Charlie
2003-10-08 09:09:46 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
Speaking of Escape characters, it seems that sometimes when a double quote character is entered in a solution or comment, the system puts an untyped backslash in front of it, apparently thinking it needs this as an escape character, but it just shows up on the solution or comment. |
DJ
2003-10-08 14:59:43 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
When that happens, I think it's not because the escape character is needed in the display on the page, but rather in the PHP string used to store the entry. Such problems are rare, as the slashes are generally stripped from a string before posting (PHP has a built-in stripslashes() function to handle that), but I have noticed that happening a few times on this site. |
steven
2003-12-03 19:32:41 |
Re: Help (Stupid question)
YEah
is good to work with |
