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Speaking of escapes, the programmers may get a kick out this.
I actually typed: char \* buf the other day.

Reminded me of
“Help me winnielinnie, you’re my only hope”

`

Interestingly…

• 1 dot = dot (incorrect)
• 2 dots = 1 ellipsis (incorrect)
• 3 dots = 1 ellipsis (correct)
• 4+ dots = 1 ellipsis (incorrect - and even 6 dots is still one ellipsis)
• 1 comma = 1 comma
• 2+ commas = 1 comma (incorrect)

,\,, = ,,,
.\.. = ... (three dots not an ellipsis)
..\... = ….… (ellipsis, dot, ellipsis)

Conclusions: \. != . and \, != , even though they look the same: “.” != “.”, “,” != “,”.

Is there a LaTeX-plugin? Enable it, please.

I’m sure Knuth would appreciate that but: Oh, how very “trendy” of you. I say, let’s go roff macro.
MDOC(7) (bsd.lv)

How do you mark inline code in this forum? When I click the preformatted text button, the editor inserts ` before and after, but it doesn’t format it as code.

For a multi-line code block: Three backticks before your code block and three after.

```java

// Java code here

```

Language is optional.

If you use the “preformatted text” button when you’re on a blank line, it will do the code block, which will look like what Stux mentioned (and, as he says, you can optionally indicate what kind of syntax highlighting you want; if you don’t, Discourse will guess). If you use it other than on a blank line, it will as you say insert a backtick before and after, which will result in what was called “inline code” on the old forum. It will look like this.

Thanks dan, yes, I’m talking about inline code, not a block. For some reason I couldn’t get it to work on this post. For example, see under the transmission heading after the code block.

That’s strange–it looks like you have the right codes in there (and I tried to edit it just to see). Not sure why it isn’t working there.

Probably dev’s changed something. When i press on my avatar, i only see these options, and they does not look promising for changing the font size:

You’re confusing the truenas webui with the truenas forum. The post from tigersharke refers to settings on this forum homepage, not the truenas webui.

sorry my fault.

Given how many threads are asking for hardware recommendations, and how important location is to those recommendations, how about adding the country flags plugin?

I checked, and the only one I found was this community plugin:

Is there an official discourse version of the same? I couldn’t find one so far, and I’ve been very reluctant to install non-official forum plugins.

Can a button for “insert details” be enabled in the toolbar?

Everyone, but mostly new users, will benefit from making this feature easily discoverable and accessible. If they have to keep typing [details][\details], they’re not as likely to use it.

We have buttons for “insert quote” and “insert preformatted text”.

The reason we need a button for “insert details” is so that users will be encouraged to use this feature, which will make their posts tidier and easier to read.

I have a hunch that some posts are glossed over because there’s just too much text being dumped. It looks overwhelming.

Don’t you mean insert details?