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When posting to Liminal Nation, you can make your contributions more attractive and easier to read by using HTML tags.
If you're not used to them, don't worry - they're much simpler than they might seem.
There are two kinds of tags that are used most often: blockquotes and links.
When quoting other posts or material from other sources, type <blockquote> at the beginning of the quoted materal and </blockquote> at the end. A passage entered as...
<blockquote>Most of us can remember the strangely moving power of passages in certain poems read when we were young, irrational doorways as they were through which the mystery of fact, the wildness and the pang of life, stole into our hearts and thrilled them. The words have now perhaps become mere polished surfaces for us; but lyric poetry and music are alive and significant only in proportion as they fetch these vague vistas of a life continuous with our own, beckoning and inviting, yet ever eluding our pursuit. </blockquote>
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Most of us can remember the strangely moving power of passages in certain poems read when we were young, irrational doorways as they were through which the mystery of fact, the wildness and the pang of life, stole into our hearts and thrilled them. The words have now perhaps become mere polished surfaces for us; but lyric poetry and music are alive and significant only in proportion as they fetch these vague vistas of a life continuous with our own, beckoning and inviting, yet ever eluding our pursuit.
Clicking the tiny "quote" link at the top right of posts in the Liminal Nation Community will automatically copy that post into the reply window inside blockquote tags.
When pointing readers to a web page, it's polite to turn the web address into a clickable link.
For example, rather than simply pasting http://www.sacred-texts.com/ into a message, place it inside an anchor tag (or "a href" tag) like so:
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/"> Sacred Texts</a>.What readers see is:
Sacred Texts.
That's a space href equals quotation mark address quotation mark (inside angle-brackets), then the name you'd like to link followed by slash-a (inside angle-brackets).
It's also possible to use formatting tags in messages:
<i>Italics</i> creates Italicsand
<b>Bold</b> creates Bold.