lines through text

[Vixpy1]

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

maybe its my drunkeness, but i swear there is a line through the top posters text

[Kinky]

Charlie - you're drunk.

honest, you are

K

[Vixpy1]

seriously, its happening

[Plotloss]

if you encapsulate text in hyphens, it strikes it
quote for the truth

[Vixpy1]

wow

[thinfourth2]

ha ha i thought it was just me

[ewenm]

It is slightly annoying though.

testing it testing it again

So it takes away carriage returns with blank lines too.

"-" another test "-"

[Strangely Brown]

Seeing lots of inappropriate strikethrough in posts here too.

[Einion Yrth]

Please, Ted. Can we have our hyphens back? Many many people use them as punctuation; they make a very poor code for overstrike.

Edited by Einion Yrth on Friday 18th May 09:48

[touching cloth]

WTF
Cor, it works

[Strangely Brown]

Einion Yrth said:

Please, Ted. Can we have our hyphens back? Many many people use them as punctuation; they make a very poor code for overstrike.

If it is deliberate then it's a very poor move. Hashes, hyphens, dashes, equals and underscores are legitimate punctuation characters. In fact you NEVER use any unescaped characters for formatting in that way. It will ALWAYS bugger somebody up.

Since you use [b] for bold and [i] for italics why not just use [s] for strikethrough [u] for underline etc. At least they are not things that people will type normally and are obviously intended for formatting.

**this** or -this-

might not be.

Please could you UNbreak it.

[calorus]

[-]x[/-] would be perfect and logical.

[PetrolTed]

[-]strikethrough[/-] wins.

Will upload soon.

[PetrolTed]

sorted

[Strangely Brown]

is it?
While you're at it could you please do the same thing for underscore and any other unescaped formatting characters?

It really would make more sense if ALL formatting commands were consistently of the format [fcmd]text[/fcmd]. That way you'll be as sure as you can be of not buggering up someones post unintentionally.

Edited by Strangely Brown on Friday 18th May 18:22

[PetrolTed]

Strangely Brown said:

-is it?-

It is now.

[Strangely Brown]

PetrolTed said:

[quote=Strangely Brown]-is it?-[/quote]

It is now.

Oops!

There's something still not quite right there.

[PetrolTed]

Strangely Brown said:

PetrolTed said:

Strangely Brown said:

-is it?-

It is now.

-Oops!-



There's something still not quite right there.

It will have taken a couple of minutes to reach the server you're using.

[Strangely Brown]

PetrolTed said:

It will have taken a couple of minutes to reach the server you're using.

-Indeed- it did, thanks.



What are your thoughts on the other formatting codes being standardised to [code]text[/code]?