FreewayTalk is a set of mailing lists, and everything you see on the Web is “scraped” from plain-text mail messages. Even when you use the Web “forum” to post, you are only sending mail to the listserv.
You can add rich formatting to your messages using Markdown:
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus
Anything you write in Markdown syntax will be interpreted here. There are some additional language extensions to make it easier to post code examples – we use the “fenced code block” syntax, which is four tildes in a row on a line before and again after the code. (Four spaces or one tab at the beginning of each line of code will also work, but that can get messy on long lines, which get forcibly wrapped by many e-mail applications. The fence is unambiguous.)
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This is code
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Comes out like this:
This is code
We also have integration with Gist and Pastie for longer code examples. Go to either of those sites (https://gist.github.com or http://pastie.org) and create a page there, then paste the URL all alone on a line here, and you’ll see the code neatly rendered inline. This is probably the best way to put a huge example, like your entire page of html, on this site.
The mailing list does not accept attachments – your message will be bounced if you try that. If you want to show a picture, post it on a Web server somewhere and either paste a plain link to it here (which people may click if they’re so inclined) or use Markdown image syntax to create an image tag for it (see the Dingus for directions). Remember – anything you post here is (hopefully) going to be around for years to come. So if you post a link to an image, try not to take that image down ever. (Disk is cheap.)
Walter
On May 29, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Simon K wrote:
Richard you’re using 6.1 b1? I’m on 6.08 how about you David, ps where are the instructions for posting code images etc to this forum?
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