[LMB] Alternate easy methods to tag quotes

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 08:36 AM 3/9/2008, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
>> From: Peter H. Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net>
>> Date: 09 March 2008 02:18
>> 
>> At 04:05 PM 3/8/2008, micki  yamada wrote:
>> 
>> >I'm going to Sherwood a bunch of replies since they all apply to
>typography 
>> >and list manners.
>> 
>> Um:  What does "Sherwood" mean in this context?
>
>Isn't it in the FAQ ?

I apologise:  I have never read the FAQ, and have, to my remembrance, never been in whatever Web site contains them.

>Answering several branches of the tree/thread in one post.
> 
>> >I'll give this carat-thing a shot for quoting; I don't want to hand-carat 
>> >everything, either. But I will try to keep the quoting to the absolute 
>> >minimum.
>> 
>> Carat?  I thought that was a measurement of fineness in gold? 
>
>The word Mikki is after is caret (wedge-shaped mark).

This is a caret:  ^.  It's not normally used for quoting.  I have used it to denote powers of ten (such as, 1000 += 10 ^ 3).

I'm not sure, but I think that > is called a less than (and < is called, thereby, a greater than).  Or maybe I have them backward.