Text formatting in the Kudoz section
Thread poster: Erik Freitag
Erik Freitag
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Feb 8, 2016

Dear all and especially proz staff,

ceterum censeo: I think we really do need some sub- and superscript formatting in the Kudoz section, because a good translation will show these things correctly, and many a question would be a lot clearer if the asker had a way to present it correctly. The lack of this option is very annoying, in my opinion.


 
Michael Beijer
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Testing … Feb 8, 2016

Test¹ (not sure how I did that)

some more tests:

x⁰ xⁱ x⁴ x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹ x⁺ x⁻ x⁼ x⁽ x⁾ xⁿ
x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ x₊ x₋ x₌
xₐ xₑ xₒ xₓ xₔ xₕ xₖ xₗ xₘ xₙ xₚ xₛ xₜ


[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:49 GMT]

Test₁₂₃₄
°C


[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:53 GMT]

    underlined

bold
italics<
... See more
Test¹ (not sure how I did that)

some more tests:

x⁰ xⁱ x⁴ x⁵ x⁶ x⁷ x⁸ x⁹ x⁺ x⁻ x⁼ x⁽ x⁾ xⁿ
x₀ x₁ x₂ x₃ x₄ x₅ x₆ x₇ x₈ x₉ x₊ x₋ x₌
xₐ xₑ xₒ xₓ xₔ xₕ xₖ xₗ xₘ xₙ xₚ xₛ xₜ


[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:49 GMT]

Test₁₂₃₄
°C


[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:53 GMT]

    underlined

bold
italics
strange
colours (with changeable size)

[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:56 GMT]
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Erik Freitag
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How? Feb 8, 2016

How did you do that? I know there are special characters for square and cubic, but 1? Can you do a subscript alphanumeric character, too? And will it work in the Kudoz section?

[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:47 GMT]


 
Michael Beijer
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I am experimenting with copy/pasting stuff over from various sources. MS Word and Wikipedia so far. Feb 8, 2016

Erik Freitag wrote:

How did you do that? I know there are special characters for square and cubic, but 1? Can you do a subscript alphanumeric character, too? And will it work in the Kudoz section?

[Edited at 2016-02-08 16:47 GMT]


 
Erik Freitag
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I see Feb 8, 2016

I see. That's not going to work in a Kudoz answer, if I'm not mistaken. Text pasted there will always be plain text.

 
Michael Beijer
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↪↪↪↪↪↪↪↪↪ :-) Feb 8, 2016

Erik Freitag wrote:

I see. That's not going to work in a Kudoz answer, if I'm not mistaken. Text pasted there will always be plain text.


Yes, if I remember correctly, both the Answer and the Reference comment fields do not support very much in the way of formatting. This is why I often put things in the Discussion entries, where you can at least use bold and italics.

I agree though, especially on a website for language professionals, we should have much better support for things like this.


 
neilmac
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A common affliction Feb 8, 2016

I also miss being able to use bold and italics in kudoz. I mostly just have to hope that people intuitively understand when I'm being tongue in cheek on making some obscure cultural reference...

 


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