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In addition to the custom year stars code that sits half finished on my hard drive, I am considering adding a few more markup options.

One would be [tt]...[/tt] which would output the text in a typewriter like font, just like the <tt> tag in HTML. While not useful much of the time, it would be a trivial addition, and I would find it useful when explaining a simple line of code or something, something too small to warrant using the full blown code tags.

Aside: I would also like syntax highlighted code tags, but that is alot of work and I am not likley going to do it any time soon.


The other things are like you see in the Dummies book series: a block of text, similar to a quote tag, but can have different colors and rather than a Quote: label, it would have possibly an icon off to the side, again just like the Tip boxes in the Whatever for Dummies books.

I think that would be useful in the tutorials I am writing in C&G, and other people might find that useful too.


Lastly, I would like to eventually write a Calculus tutorial too, and that is something that would be significantly easier with a math markup reader, to display things like the integration and summation symbols. Such a mod already exists; all I would have to do is install it and possibly do some minor customizations. This was proposed over at SDN but it never went through, and I think it would be useful here at times too.


Anyone have any thoughts on this? Do you think it will be worth the effort?
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How about strikethrough tags? I've found phpBB's lack of them annoying several times.
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They would be trivial to add, but they are something I never thought would be useful. However if you think they will be useful, I'll add them next time I open up the code.
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Yes, I already did that with the subSilver template. Just have to update the other templates to display it.
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Adam, is there an yway to add in a additional alignment tag, like <center>?
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Yup. Another trivial addition.
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Rogue 9 wrote:How about strikethrough tags?
I did this about a month ago and mentioned it in the OOC forum, but forgot to mention it here.

Strikeout works like this

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[s]text[/s]
And looks like this
text
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Feature request:
When displaying new posts, if there is a new post, it also displays the forum list. If there are no new posts, it dosn't display the list. Can that be fixed?
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