Post size limit?

ZipTiesThatBind

Here is some example code block with multiple paragraphs.  I couldn't come up with enough nonsense, so here's some lorem ipsum.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam porta vitae odio sit amet varius. Duis congue tortor nec nibh pellentesque porttitor. Aliquam vestibulum sapien ut nisi tristique euismod. Donec id lectus nec arcu dignissim ultrices. Morbi dapibus molestie lorem, vitae aliquam eros scelerisque vitae. Sed diam lacus, bibendum non volutpat nec, porta et tellus. Vivamus rhoncus mattis urna, quis pellentesque leo hendrerit sed. Aliquam vulputate neque at ante pharetra, venenatis euismod mi placerat. Quisque eu efficitur erat, sed pretium odio. Sed hendrerit dui ac ex efficitur, at dapibus libero ultrices.

Nullam non risus porttitor, varius orci id, luctus diam. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Integer nec faucibus odio, non finibus nisi. Ut accumsan felis quis risus gravida, quis dignissim magna blandit. Donec eget dolor eget ante cursus fringilla. Mauris eget lorem fringilla mauris facilisis cursus vulputate in metus. Donec vehicula felis egestas odio aliquam elementum. Suspendisse semper efficitur ligula nec ultrices. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Mauris egestas ultricies metus, vitae ornare orci pellentesque a. Vivamus interdum, ligula a eleifend sagittis, quam quam hendrerit felis, sed faucibus metus sem a purus. Sed at leo nec arcu tempus dictum. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Sed sed neque aliquet, sodales lacus at, aliquet enim. Etiam euismod, nisl sed facilisis vehicula, quam urna luctus neque, varius euismod dolor lorem non enim.

Quisque elementum vehicula tortor posuere lacinia. Sed non rhoncus nunc. Donec mattis lacinia tincidunt. Mauris mauris quam, varius nec faucibus quis, consequat at sem. Nunc ac leo euismod, porta sapien nec, dictum massa. Praesent hendrerit tincidunt est vel lobortis. Sed pulvinar, quam ut venenatis suscipit, nulla ante tristique odio, mollis consequat quam sapien posuere sapien. Duis eget pellentesque lorem, non tincidunt lorem. Donec nec rhoncus sapien, laoreet ullamcorper ipsum. Etiam orci arcu, iaculis id blandit ac, vehicula in dolor. Suspendisse finibus dolor id risus semper sagittis quis id dolor. Nunc tincidunt euismod tempor. Nulla vitae magna congue, commodo tellus eu, varius lorem. Aenean sed turpis vitae tellus eleifend aliquet at nec tellus. Sed sodales nunc eu malesuada vestibulum.

OK, so the problem with this approach it turns out is that you would have to manually insert line breaks. Not sure why you’re having emoticons converted to emoji. The post composer doesn’t do that for me. Typing a colon does bring up the emoji picker, but that isn’t forcing anything on me.

And yes, we can delete threads if necessary.

Vela_Nanashi

out of curiosity how did you make that box?

ZipTiesThatBind

Vela_Nanashi Oh yes, that would be useful information. 🤦 Surround the text with three backticks on their own line.

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like this
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Vela_Nanashi

when I edit/write I always ‘manually’ hit enter twice between paragraphs, so if that is in a code block it should be respected, it should even show double spaces I think, let me whip up a plain html to check that 🙂 lol

ok neither code or pre does what I want or in combination, so that is apparently not a good solution either… line wrapping I wonder if I can add that as a style thing to pre

yes with the following css:
pre {
white-space: pre-wrap; /* Since CSS 2.1/
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /Mozilla, since 1999/
white-space: -pre-wrap; /Opera 4-6/
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /Opera 7/
word-wrap: break-word; /Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}

the pre tag preserves formatting and wraps lines. with or without code. Can not upload example here sadly not allowed to upload html or txt file

Vela_Nanashi


testing "new feature" to see if it works like I hope it will..........
       ------ oh yes that seems good so far, though no wrap so that is
 what the css above would do :) not sure if you would be inclined to add that?

Then I can use it for posting and be very happy :) thanks for helping me with
this though :)

Vela_Nanashi

example html code to make pre tag behave:

<html><head><title>Pre Example</title><style>pre {
    white-space: pre-wrap;       /* Since CSS 2.1 */
    white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
    white-space: -pre-wrap;      /* Opera 4-6 */
    white-space: -o-pre-wrap;    /* Opera 7 */
    word-wrap: break-word;       /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}</style></head><body style='color: white; background: black'>
Pre tag alone:<br/>
<pre>
    spaces before show?

Testing for line wrap, test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test





newlines above?

</pre></body></html>

ZipTiesThatBind

I’m sorry, but it isn’t really feasible to start tweaking the site’s CSS like this. We’re effectively fighting our own forum software at this point, and breaking intended functionality (code blocks are supposed to not wrap their contents). We would also have to test it after every software update to make sure it doesn’t conflict with anything.

This forum is meant to be a bit more modern than some other forums out there, which is why we are using Markdown instead of just plain text with BBCode. I’m afraid you will have to go with the solution of escaping special Markdown characters that you do not want to be interpreted (e.g. \-\-\- instead of just --- to get --- instead of —).

Vela_Nanashi

No worries I will cope 🙂 and you see all these smileys they happen when I press colon followed by a closing parenthesis, I do not choose them, but that is also fine. 🙂

As for wrapped code, copy pasting it does result in no extra code breaking new lines, but I understand not wanting to do that, it would actually break ascii art posts that are too big to fit inside the code block and get wrapped and that would be sad for ascii art people.

Of course I would just love a extra option at the end of the toolbar in the post composer “do not replace symbols” that would remove the need of trying to find a way around it at all for the few old people like me who don’t like the smart quotes and other things like those, that also do not work on some forums so if you are planning to cross post to more than one forum, it is a good idea to have a plain text version to copy from on those older forums, not a problem for me, but a writer on a forum I am on got his post repeatedly destroyed by the smart quotes breaking during copy paste, just a warning to fellow writers, keep a document in plain format somewhere with your story so it can go everywhere you want and not break.

You can close this question now though if you want and thank you for trying to help me and also putting up with me being annoying and difficult.

Vela_Nanashi

one last discovery that may work for me to get it to do, the code box that single backticks make are wrapping text, like I want them to, and if a symbol such as ; is placed on the new line between paragraphs it is allowed to continue being active while still wrapping text just fine.

they add a single <br> per new line and that extra symbol ; in my test, and is the cheapest way in bytes I have found to add the code formatting to a huge block of text with wrapping.

if one does backticks for each paragraph they get wrapped in code and p and keep the new line that is in the pasted text too, so that is 20 additional bytes for code for each paragraph, and only 20 for the whole document plus 4 for br plus one for whatever non active symbol one uses as the paragraph separator, so 5 per paragraph. easily paid for in any paragraph using “quotes” text I am fairly sure, in unicode the fancy quotes take 2 bytes each. Not sure I will use ; or find something prettier that does not trigger the parser to use - triggers something that even destroys the code box:

`test

test2

test3`

; while ; ; works just fine ; to extend them "so I have a sort of ad hock ugly solution now" Vela said, and thought 'and it works, just have to play with symbols to see what looks better' ... --- *** :)

"testing using A0 non breaking space" 'to see if that works' would be very nice... if it did --- and it does marvelous, no need to have anything showing at all :)

except the parser translates it to an entity so it is not a solution back to looking 🙂

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