How do I quote other people in my response?

Sometimes you want to respond to a very specific line or section of another person's message. To do this, Eye on Whatcom allows you to quote just that section of the message and then your response can appear just below that quote. This makes your post look very much like a "back and forth" conversation, as you can repeat the procedure as many times as you like.

There are several ways to do this:

For starters, you can click the button in the upper right corner of the message you wish to quote from. Doing so will open the Message Editor as a new response, from you, with the entire message of the other person in a quote box. You will want to delete those portions of the message you are not responding to, as very large quotes become annoying to other readers.

You will notice that the quote is set inside two "tags," an OPEN tag and a CLOSE tag. Tags are always enclsed in square brackets - [ and ]. A closing tag is identical to an opening tag but signified with a forward slash - /.

There is also a Quote button at the top of your Message Editor. It will place those tags in the message for you, but you must manually enter, or cut and past the text to be quoted.


The last way to quote is to manually type those opening and closing tags into your message. For example, typing this:



will produce a quote that looks like this:



Now, to make the quote from a specific person, you can give attribution to the quote. For example, let's say you wanted to quote something you heard Paul Harvey say on the radio. You do that as follows:



That will show up like this:

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