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Steve QJ's avatar

“A quote by you or a quote from a commenter?”

A quote from the previous reply. The name, in bold, is the person who’s 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, I’d have italicised the bit that I’ve put in quotation marks at the top of this reply. I’m quoting you.

When the comments are long, sometimes it’s useful to highlight a particular phrase that I’m 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

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

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