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[eighthobstruction]

I've been using "compose new".... in lt margin

[french frank]

How does one reply to a PM? I see no relevant button.

You click (intuitively - not!) on the subject title of the PM and you should get a reply window (scroll down to bottom of the page).

[Bryn]

How does one reply to a PM? I see no relevant button.

[eighthobstruction]

ooo....quite honestly I was intending replacing her with a Gif....

[oddoneout]

....Forsooth her mighty shoulders do render strength and fortitude betwixt the world...and might do sleep yee till matters do be taken to task and abound golden of dawn....

Good of you to have taken her place 8thO, although I don't believe your clocking on time!

[eighthobstruction]

....Forsooth her mighty shoulders do render strength and fortitude betwixt the world...and might do sleep yee till matters do be taken to task and abound golden of dawn....

[oddoneout]

French Frank has been in post for more than 12 hours on the "Politics allowed?" thread. Can she be stood down now do you think?

[oddoneout]

It's probably just as well since my response to the post in question was going to be slightly facetious*, but is it usual for the edit text on a post not to appear when the Quote option is used to reply?

*Referencing Hinge in relation to Pulcinella's bracket difficulty on another thread.

[french frank]

I should just turn this round and accept that I'm different, aka special...

aka oddoneout

I found people complaining about this on vBulletin 4. As we're on vB 5 they ought to have fixed it if it was a bug.

[Pulcinella]

... wiki is good on brackets - I had not realized that the UK and US usages differ -

". In British usage, there are four primary types of brackets, known as round brackets (or simply brackets), square brackets, curly brackets, and angle brackets. In American usage, these symbols are known respectively as parentheses, brackets, braces, and chevrons (also angle brackets). Thus, when the word bracket is used without qualification, in British English it means ( and in American English it means [ "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

.

Not just US, but other uses too, such as maths (math!) equations.

The order we adopted in the Institute of Physics was similar, though angle brackets can of course have a distinct meaning, and we would use outer brackets of slightly greater font size in expressions such as (sin(x+y) - cos(x-y)), though with 'maths' spacing around the operators + and - rather than switching to the next type of bracket.

[oddoneout]

You can't be the only person who - for one reason or another - keeps the reply box open for a while. If you open a new tab to do your fact-checking you shouldn't get logged out, even if you don't have the Remember Me box checked. I've been away now, looking at various websites (news, Trumps, mahjong &c) but I don't seem to be logged out.

That's what I do. But when I come back and finishadding the info to my opened reply box and then try to post, it'll often come back with the need to login, instead of posting. Could be worse, it could reject/lose the reply altogether, which did happen a few times(and autosave didn't kick in) until I found the correct way to login from that starting point.
Perhaps I should just turn this round and accept that I'm different, aka special...

[vinteuil]

... wiki is good on brackets - I had not realized that the UK and US usages differ -

". In British usage, there are four primary types of brackets, known as round brackets (or simply brackets), square brackets, curly brackets, and angle brackets. In American usage, these symbols are known respectively as parentheses, brackets, braces, and chevrons (also angle brackets). Thus, when the word bracket is used without qualification, in British English it means ( and in American English it means [ "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket

.

[Serial_Apologist]

....I seem to have a memory of intentional opening square brackets being found on the Nazca Desert in Peru....now worshipped in the Cargo Cult manner ....

I would think that must be the bracket tree fungus, well-known for its psychedelic trance-inducing capacity.

[eighthobstruction]

....I seem to have a memory of intentional opening square brackets being found on the Nazca Desert in Peru....now worshipped in the Cargo Cult manner ....

[french frank]

I don't really like being reminded so often that I don't always work quickly. It doesn't seem to make any difference if I am active on the post, there is evidently some time limit of how long I can have the box open before it gets sent.

You can't be the only person who - for one reason or another - keeps the reply box open for a while. If you open a new tab to do your fact-checking you shouldn't get logged out, even if you don't have the Remember Me box checked. I've been away now, looking at various websites (news, Trumps, mahjong &c) but I don't seem to be logged out.