On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:58:37 AM UTC-5, John Cremona wrote: > > On 11 December 2013 15:42, P Purkayastha <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > On 12/11/2013 11:33 PM, John Cremona wrote: > >> > >> My answers to questions on ask.sagemath.org would possibly be more > >> helpful if I could work out how to type stuff into the box so that it > >> ends up looking reasonable. It's not wiki markup -- what is it? > >> Where is it explained? Could there be an faq about it? > >> > >> Please don't answer just by saying "it's just the same as xxx or yyy" > >> since I maybe don't know how they work either. A link to a page > >> explaining the markup wold be useful! I have already tried using the > >> preformatted text or blockquote buttons. So far > >> > >> > http://ask.sagemath.org/question/3302/how-to-get-frobenius_element-in-numberfield?answer=4419#4419 > > >> is my best effort. > >> > >> John Cremona > >> > > > > That uses markdown syntax: > > http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax > > Thanks for the link. There should be some mention of this somewhere > on ask.sagemath (if there isn't -- I did not see it). > > I went back to edit my code block, and it is a bit better but I cannot > believe that manually entering 4 spaces at the beginning of every line > (pasted in from a Sage session) is a good way to do anything. Some of > the lines did not let me enter spaces in them anyway, so the result is > still a mess. > > There should be a button that has 101010 in it that, if you highlight a whole section of (usually cut-and-pasted) code and then click it, will move it all in four spaces.
It IS true that unlike when one *asks* a question, there is no link on the right for more information about Markdown syntax when one *answers* a question. I assume this is fairly easy to fix, but I'm not sure whether we should ask askbot to do this and upgrade our installation, or if it's so easy we can do this on our side. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
