[GNC] Formatting reply posts

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, 03:32 David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com wrote:

> Unfortunately,  gmail seems to force me into top posting by opening up my
> reply with the previous text at the bottom an d hidden below three dots.
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It doesn't help, I agree, particularly with deleting sections of the post.
It is easy enough to insert at the appropriate point, however, as I have
done here.  You just have to click the dots then scroll down and insert.

Colin



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> Especially on a tablet, where it is difficult to do anything more
> sophisticated than touchong a virtual keyboard with my thumb hoping I won't
> need punctuation beyond a comma or period,  I have completely given up
> doing anything different.
>
> Yes, long threads do get incredibly confusing.
>
> David C
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> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019, 4:30 PM aeg via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org wrote:
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>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 21:15, aeg via gnucash-user<
>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:>> It's good to see that the formatting
>> issue is being addressed and my suggestion is as follows...>    - Italicise
>> all quoted text from previous contributors.
>> Tricky for those that do not want (or cannot) use html formatting.Also
>> most mail clients use one of the common techniques foridentifying quoted
>> text.
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>> This is a pity because I find many of the GnuCash posts very difficult to
>> follow as they are usually formatted. What about indenting? Is that
>> available to all?
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>> >    - Delete any previously posted text that is irrelevant or duplicated.
>> Certainly. I notice that you have not done this yourself.
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>> I thought all of the text I quoted (left in) was related to my post; I
>> had certainly deleted a substantial amount of text from the original posts
>> that was not related to formatting. However, when I wrote that, I was
>> really thinking of the very lengthy posts that contain several re-quoted
>> passages from a long thread.
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>> >    ...>    - Start with an introductory comment at the top (if
>> required).
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>> Not usually necessary.
>> Colin
>>
>> Agreed, but note that I did add "if required" because there have been
>> occasions where an initial comment has been helpful.
>> Alan
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