I was wondering if a forum faq might be a good idea ?
No everybody will be familiar with this forum and how it works.
One good example …... how do you quote another user/post ????
Maybe a set of useful codes that make things happen ?

Hmmmmm….. ok lets see if this works …...
bold
italic
athas.org

Well …. that was simple enough.

Well …. that was simple enough

how did you end the qoute? to continue typing and how did you get a line feed to advance your text?
Tim

this is a quote
This is not. arrrrghh :)

no good.

is there a site online for help on this topic? I tried searching and came up with jackall.
Tim

Not to worry Tim. I’m compiling a short help/faq to help those of us (me included) who are IT challenged well…... unfamiliar with beast and RoR etc.

this is an underlined quote.

This is the second level quote

oooh ! nested :-)

1. list point one
   
2. list point two
   
   • add some dots
     

faq ….... compiling ….... well maybe.

The Arena Quick Formatting and Syntax Guide


Ok …...
First off I better just say that the following tips have been gained from just experimenting with some basic html code and looking at the other beast forums.
In some ways its similar to bbcode.


The following is a list of (html) tags that cause the text changes listed.
They need to be placed inside a set of <> brackets at the start and end of each sentence or line entry to be modified. Don’t forget to add a backslash (/) in the end one.


ins = underline
blockquote= quote
sup = superscript
sub = subscript
b = bold
i = italics
br = break
del = strikethrough
li = list
ol =
ul = increases indent in lists


Adding a link
Very easy this one…... place the text to be the link inside some quote marks ie. “this is a link”
Then add a colon straight after it – no spaces – the type the full address (url) of the link destination including http://


Quoting
use blockquote multiple time to nest quotes – quoted text needs to be cut and pasted.


Beast Shortcuts
There are some beast shortcuts to cut out the need for html tags but I can’t find them listed anywhere.
They may be in the implementation files somewhere. (flip ????)
The obvious ones are to the left of the window that pops up when you start a new thread or add a reply.
These are asterisks for bold, underscores for italics etc etc
Not managed to find a way to end a quote using the “dot bq” command – just use the blockquote tag instead.
Asterisk and hash for lists ….. who knows !


Thats about it for now.
Hope that helps.
I know it was a little confusing at the start for me so I guess there must be others out there.
Enjoy.

They may be in the implementation files somewhere. (flip ????)

Ah ha !!!
Here’s a better link textile syntax
This should sort out all the text formatting and syntax questions.
Cheers flip =]