You know, when programmer-like you wanna contain a subparenthetical thought within an already parenthetical thought (like, I was thinking of whatever [& then I wanted to included whatsoever too]).
What I've done up there with (stuff [more stuff]) doesn't work at all if instead of brackets I put <stuff>. Or, what happens is only the 1st word of "stuff" is left. All my other most-eloquent words are lost into the ether, never to be reclaimed, unless of course I might have remembered them.
What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
<stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
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Re: <stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
phpbb seems to have some issues dealing with stuff inside those angle brackets, which is probably left over from those being the delimiters for HTML tags. Yes, it tends to truncate everything after the first space, as you noticed.ghostjmf wrote: What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
You could try substituting an underscore for a space <like_this> but that's not exactly natural or convenient.
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Re: <stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
Just check the box saying "Disable HTML in this post".MarleysGh0st wrote:phpbb seems to have some issues dealing with stuff inside those angle brackets, which is probably left over from those being the delimiters for HTML tags. Yes, it tends to truncate everything after the first space, as you noticed.ghostjmf wrote: What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
You could try substituting an underscore for a space <like_this> but that's not exactly natural or convenient.
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Re: <stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
<like this?>Bob Juch wrote:Just check the box saying "Disable HTML in this post".MarleysGh0st wrote:phpbb seems to have some issues dealing with stuff inside those angle brackets, which is probably left over from those being the delimiters for HTML tags. Yes, it tends to truncate everything after the first space, as you noticed.ghostjmf wrote: What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
You could try substituting an underscore for a space <like_this> but that's not exactly natural or convenient.
Well, how about that!
