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Steve QJ's avatar

Did you see the message I left you above? Is it still unclear?

Basically, italicised text is always a quote.

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Erica Etelson's avatar

A quote by you or a quote from a commenter?

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Steve QJ's avatar

тАЬA quote by you or a quote from a commenter?тАЭ

A quote from the previous reply. The name, in bold, is the person whoтАЩs talking. The first bit of italicised text (if there is any) is a quote from the previous reply. The normally formatted text is the actual reply.

So, for example, if it were possible to italicise text in comments, IтАЩd have italicised the bit that IтАЩve put in quotation marks at the top of this reply. IтАЩm quoting you.

When the comments are long, sometimes itтАЩs useful to highlight a particular phrase that IтАЩm responding to.

Does that make sense?

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Erica Etelson's avatar

Well, you've def bent over backwards to try to explain this to me and I still don't follow, but at this point I'm gonna assume it's my problem, if your other readers are good to go, don't worry about it.

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Steve QJ's avatar

ЁЯШБ I'll have a think. Maybe there's a way I can reformat it to make it clearer.

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