How does one link a previous thread? (nt)
Go to the first post in the thread to which you want to link and open it. Right click and then click on properties.
Copy (Ctrl+C) the address from properties. In your new post (where you want to place the link) paste (Ctrl+V) the address in the "Optional Link URL" below the message box. Add a title to the link, if you wish, by typing something in the "Optional Link Title".
When you post your message the link will appear at the bottom. Like it did on this one.
Buick
In the Macintosh world it is a little different but I translated your advice and voila!
First open the page, copy to toolbar favorites, open the page you wish to insert link, copy the URL to the optional link URL, and insert the link title of choice. and there you go!
. . .quit meeting like this. :-) I'm glad you were able to translate the info from PC to MAC. And I can't believe you found that old taxi post of mine!
Buick
1. Can you only use the beginning post in the thread? In other words can you reference a post farther into a thread or does it have to be the one that started the thread?
2. I suppose there is some electronic wizardry in place so that someone can't make a post on the free pages that includes a link to a post on GC. Am I correct?
Much Thanx for taking the time to explain these things, and when answering, please keep in mind that you are talking to a feeble minded old simpleton!
I feel one step closer to senility everytime I turn this d*mn thing on!
@^S
Take care,
@^)
Cyclops
1. Can you only use the beginning post in the thread? In other words can you reference a post farther into a thread or does it have to be the one that started the thread?
Each post has it's own unique URL, so you may link to any post in a thread. The easiest way to get the URL is to put your curser on the title of the post on the index page and right-click it. Then select "Open Link in New Window." You can then copy the URL from the address window.
Of course, like any post, it will show the entire thread at the bottom of the post.
2. I suppose there is some electronic wizardry in place so that someone can't make a post on the free pages that includes a link to a post on GC. Am I correct?
You can link to a post on GC (or BC, or the CBJN page) in a free page post. However, if someone clicking on the link is not already logged in as a GC member (or BC, etc.) on that computer, they will be asked for their password.
And of course, if they do not enter a valid username and password, they will then get the "You are not authorized . . . " screen instead of the link.
Simple, no?
I wish the Pocket Reference Guide, had:
an edition for html, Java, Perl, C++, Python and SEQL.
an edition for physics and math.
They (Sequoia Publishing) actualy used to publish, in limited printing, a pocket Math and pocket Physics formulae, and they are the leaders in such handy cheatsheets to life. I want the Math and Physics editions back!!!!!
"..put your curser on the title of the post on the index page and right-click it.."
I apologize for being such a computer 'tard, but what is "right-clicking"?
Do you mean highlight it and then copy it, to I can paste it elsewhere? If not, please explain for the only remedial computer person on this site!
@^E
I use a Mac, if that makes any difference.
Again, apologies for being so slow here. God, I hate computers!
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Cyclops
so click with the "right" mouse button and you should be set. Not familiar with Macs, but I assume they're the same. Oh... and yes... that probably IS the stupidest question ever. (kidding)
I use a Mac, if that makes any difference.
This makes all the difference in the world, and makes your question completely legitimate.
I made an assumption, obviously incorrect, that you were using a Windows PC.
The typical Windows mouse has two buttons, a left and a right one. Some even have three or more.
I don't know a lot about Mac's, but I do know that their mouses (mice?) only have one button.
As I said, I'm not familiar with Mac's so I cannot tell you exactly how you open a link in a new window on one of them. Perhaps someone can jump in and help.
Cyclops, does your mouse look anything like this? :)
select your url address in your browser window (one click should 'highlight' the URL) then copy to clipboard (�+C.)... select optional link URL window ... paste (�+V) your URL address from the 'clipboard' and you are finished except to give your optional link title a name. As with most thing in Appledom, it is easier in practice than it is to explain. any questions?
(by the way, "�" is the Apple key or command key by way symbol shorthand.)
The part to remember is that whatever thread or sublisting you want to link will always be given an URL that will appear in the browser 'address window', while that window is open in your browser. I am sure the 'cut and paste' stuff you are familiar with since it permeates the entire structure of multitasking between applications on the Mac.
since you seem to be of the "Mac persuasion", How do I (with a MAC)
italicize text, as when quoting someone else from a previous post?
For me, tracking is a snap, and yet I cannot understand computers. Go figure!
@^D
Thanx again,
@^)
Cyclops
This one is platform-independent, so I can answer it. In order to italicize, you have to enter the HTML tags by hand.
You simply put: < i > (without the spaces - I had to add spaces so you could see it) at the beginning of the text that you wish to appear in italics when you are typing it, and < /i > (again without spaces) at the end of the italicized portion. These tags will not show up in the copy.
If you use b instead of i you will get bold text, and u will give you underlined text. You can combine them, as well.
BTW, HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, and is what web pages are written in. You have just had your first lesson. :-)
you posted this as a response to Cyclops, I am very happy to be a student in the classroom of HTML...as something that is truly cross-platform (and something I am just learning about), I feel it imcumbent for me to give you a little history lesson about HTML.
SOTSOG probably has better dates than I do on this, even if it is not as documented as the first flight of the Boeing 777.
Steve Jobs introduced 'Hypercard' in I think 1987. Bill Atkinson, one of Apple's legendary programmers developed this 'card stack' system with buttons that had links to other cards in a related stack. Each link could be connected by having a discrete address. In 1989 the world wide web came along, and the application that Jobs claimed "would forever change the way we used computers" became the foundation through it's introduction of hypertext markup language and linkage to the internet. By the way, 'Hypercard' never caught on and remains a novelty application used primarily as a teaching aid in some elementary education classrooms.
Another 'revolutionary' development from the Apple labs.
(this also stolen from the Xerox PARC research, as was the GUI interface operating system.)
"You simply put: < i > (without the spaces - I had to add spaces so you could see it) at the beginning of the text that you wish to appear in italics when you are typing it, and < /i > (again without spaces) at the end of the italicized portion. These tags will not show up in the copy."
- as I have done above.
Parker, you're not only a wealth of Vegas info....
@^D
Cyclops
By using "font color=red" or "font color=blue" instead of "i," "b," or "u," we can add colored text.
We can also use the "font size=" tag to make the print bigger or smaller.
Isn't this fun?
I recall using Hypercard in 1987 on the original MACs. Think that was the first mention of 'hypertext', which is what the HT in HTML stands for.
Amazing that it only took Microsoft 8 years to match the performance of the original MAC OS with Windows 95. Of course, Windows 95 only used about 200 megs. more space, and ran slower with a faster chip, so Microsoft continued its proud tradition of coming out with inferior products at a slower rate and dominating the market with them.
Currently trying to get two AIX/ORACLE and BSD UNIX/SYBASE databases talking to each other, which makes the APPLE/MICROSOFT thing look like a walk in the part.
