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Formatting on Forum Posts

PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
in Problem solving
Over the last couple of days I've noticed that if I've preceeded another poster's name with the @ key and then posted the discussion, the text after the name drops to the next line, including any punctuation.  Has anyone else noticed this?  What am I doing wrong?!  Not a major problem but looks messy!
Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Lots of the formatting is quite glitchy. I wouldn't suppose that it's you.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited January 2022
    Thanks @Fire I was getting worried!

    (See it's done it again!)
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    It is a bit idiosyncratic … I have to put the skills I acquired when editing exhibition catalogues on the back burner … I don’t think any reasonable person is too concerned by the appearance of other folks’ posts. 

    It seems to me that most forums start out pretty glitch-free … but the nature of the internet is that forums are a sort of complicated knitting … one dropped stitch can lead to all sorts of unravelling further down the line … picking up those stitches correctly can take more time (patience) and expense than it’s worth … so the option usually chosen is to keep the knitting going with a few patches and some darning until it’s convenient/practical to replace it with a new improved model … which will soon develop a dropped stitch …. 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited January 2022
    Strange, when I edited the note above it corrected itself!  I'll take your advice@Dovefromabove and relax!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Plantminded said:
    Thanks @Fire I was getting worried!

    (See it's done it again!)

    It's coming up fine to me.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I haven't had any such problem Plantminded but there's always time I suppose. I'm tempting fate here.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
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