I've seen the same question twice in the last few days, asking how to split quotes. Here is my attempt at explaining the various steps of how I do it. Hope it's useful to someone...
Splitting quotes
1 Press the Quote button on the post you want to quote. This will show message the you're quoting - suppose it goes something like this :
[QUOTE][i]Originally written by Douglas Adams[/i]
[B]Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated. Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, even in its simpler moments which are, roughly speaking, the beginning and the end[/B][/QUOTE]
2 Pick out the bits of the quote you want to reuse, and insert extra lines to leave gaps where you want to reply:
[QUOTE][i]Originally written by Douglas Adams[/i]
[B]Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated.
Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand,
the end[/B][/QUOTE]
3 At the end of every section, except the last (which already has this), add: [/B][/QUOTE]
(this tells the forum to switch off bold text and switch off quote mode at the end of each section)
[QUOTE][i]Originally written by Douglas Adams[/i]
[B]Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated.[/B][/QUOTE]
Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, [/B][/QUOTE]
the end[/B][/QUOTE]
4 At the start of every section, except the first , add: [QUOTE][B]
(this tells the forum to switch on quote mode and switch on bold text at the start of each section .
[QUOTE][i]Originally written by Douglas Adams[/i]
[B]Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated.[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][B]Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, [/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][B]the end[/B][/QUOTE]
5 Add your own words between the quotes
[QUOTE][i]Originally written by Douglas Adams[/i]
[B]Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated.[/B][/QUOTE]
This is my signature at the moment
[QUOTE][B]Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, [/B][/QUOTE]
.. not unlike Death by Chocolate, or indeed this post
[QUOTE][B]the end[/B][/QUOTE]
final quote.
6 Each quote has lots of blank space after it - to make it slightly tidier, take out the extra spaces and lines before the [QUOTE] and after the [/QUOTE] lines so your reply is immediately after this
[QUOTE][i]Originally written by Douglas Adams[/i]
[B]Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated.[/B][/QUOTE] This is my signature at the moment[QUOTE][B]Its history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand, [/B][/QUOTE] .. not unlike Death by Chocolate , or indeed this post[QUOTE][B]the end[/B][/QUOTE] final quote.
7 The resultant message should look something like this:
This is my signature at the momentOriginally written by Douglas Adams
Reason notwithstanding, the Universe continues unabated... not unlike Death by Chocolate , or indeed this postIts history is terribly long and awfully difficult to understand,final quote.the end
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