"Rich text" editing of forum posts? Method for adding inline graphics?

• Sep 6, 2020 - 17:29

I'm new to the forum and have a couple of basic questions:

• I see lots of rich text messages on the forum and messages with inline graphics and videos. However I don't see any tools for controlling such options. Is there a setting for enabling text editing tools? (I'm used to seeing a toolbar above the text field—like in phpBB—and sorta expected to find that here in Edit mode.)

• Is there a setting for displaying posts (within a thread) reverse chronological order, i.e. newest at the top?

• Is there a way to delete a message I've posted? (The "..." menu only shows Edit.)

Thanks, scorster

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• Sep 7, 2020 - 04:58

Thanks, but I don't get it. Hopefully I'm overlooking something obvious!

When I enter normal HTML code the forum preview shows the HTML code, rather than rendering it. This occurs whether or not I include HTML HEAD and BODY tags, as shown:

 
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
        <title>MuseScore</title>
        <meta name="description" content="An interactive getting using MuseScore.">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
    </head>
    <body>
             <h1>MUSESCORE</h1>
        <h2>How to enter guitar Tablature</h2>
       <p>
          Lorem ipsum
        </p>
      </body>

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• Sep 9, 2020 - 11:24

> ... the forum only understands Markdown

Thanks for your comment Steve.

Yes, the consensus is that Markdown is the only choice here on MuseScore's forum.

But if Filtered HTML is NOT supported I'd think the filter tips page should not state:
        Musescore Filter Tips-Allowed HTML.png
The information therein led me to try HTML tags, to no avail.

NOTE: The preceding line of text including italic HTML markup and is surrounded by HTML blockquote tags. I understand that they don't work, en forum ... but the tips pages states that they do. Maybe it hasn't been updated in a number of years.

scorster

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• Sep 8, 2020 - 22:53

Thanks everybody!

I've got a basic handle on Markdown now, as evidenced in this recent post of mine.

Nevertheless I still have some questions regarding forum posting and Markdown formatting:

  • Most articles I find on Markdown show that we can format text not only with Markdown symbology but also with many pedestrian HTML tags—but I'm not finding that option in the forum editor. Does MuseScore.org's forum use a subset of Markdown that disallows HTML tags? I read that the HTML option was eliminated from the form some years back. If so, that seems like a shame.

  • Is there a way to indent a Markdown unordered list, like this one?

  • I'm not having luck on the forum with Markdown's blockquote symbol >
    Is that true for anyone else? The > symbol creates block quotes for me in various Markdown editors.

  • Is there a forum user setting/preference so I can view posts within a thread in reverse chronologic order?

Thanks, scorster

P.S.

> This should be a blockquote because the line starts with Markdown's > symbol.

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• Sep 9, 2020 - 11:01

Hi Andreas,

Sorry if I was unclear.

Markdown's unordered lists work as expected on the forum, except there's no indent on level 1. All subsequent list levels indent as expected.

I was wondering why—on the MuseScore forum—Markdown's unordered lists lists don't automatically indent Level 1. Level 1 is customarily indented in HTML via default CSS styling.

Though I'm new to Markdown. I see indents on level 1 in Brackets —(on the Mac, with Brackets Markdown Preview plugin installed)—but no level 1 indents here on the forum, which looks kinda clumsy to me.

So I wonder if Markdown offers a way to set the equivalent of CSS:

       p { margin-left: 10px; }

I'm just looking for Markdown technique that slightly insets a paragraph, list, image, etc. I could use blockquote, if it worked, but the semantic supposition is that the material within is indeed a quotation, and therefore a default styling may make it look like a quotation.

A type of margin indent would be preferable.

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• Sep 9, 2020 - 01:12

It would also be nice to be able to navigate directly to certain pages without having to both open the thread and scroll down to the bottom of the page. There could be page navigation next to the thread title or in addition to navigation at the bottom, to have navigation on top of each page

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• Sep 9, 2020 - 03:32

FWIW, biggest improvements I'd like to see in the fourm are a handful of keyboard shortcuts, ones found in pretty much every other forum platform I've used:

  • one while reading a thread, to mark it read and immediately move on to the next unread thread
  • one while viewing a forum listing to mark all threads on the current page read
  • one to mark the current forum as read
  • one to mark all forums as read

The first I'd use dozens of times a day. I normally like to look at each and every new thread but it takes a long time to click my way through. The rest would be more for times when I'm catching up after a vacation and I just want to scan thread titles to see if there is anything I really "need" to look into.

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