On 11 December 2013 16:28, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:58:37 AM UTC-5, John Cremona wrote: >> >> On 11 December 2013 15:42, P Purkayastha <[email protected]> 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.
Yes, that worked! It would never have occurred to me. I tried clicking that 0101 button (totally unintuitive icon but the hover-text says what it is) but did so before pasting, not after. The result is now presentable. > 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. There seems to be an assumption that a person who knows the answer to a question (about mathematics, or about Sage) would always be able to guess that this (among many) markup languages was in place and how to use it. Well, I am a counterexample to that. So I am getting negative feedback from being someone who only ever answers questions, necer asks them (I do ask questions of course, but I use sage-support for that). John > > -- > 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. -- 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.
