[LMB] Alternate easy methods to tag quotes

Bill Johnson bill at prezence.com
Sun Mar 9 18:24:39 GMT 2008


Hello Peter,

See below, as per the faq, this list prefers bottom posting.

PHG> At 08:36 AM 3/9/2008, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
>>> From: Peter H. Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net>

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

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

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

FAQ:
http://www.dendarii.com/bujold_lst.html

Well worth reading as this list uses some unusual conventions

Question:
How did you derive the structured text display for engineering
notation (ie 10^6 = 10000000.00) but get '<' less than and '>'
greater than backwards?

Sunday, March 9, 2008, 12:53:46 PM, you wrote:


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 Bill                            mailto:bill at prezence.com




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