BTW: I am new here and have a question about writeup formatting. How do you cite someone's text if it contains a code? Copy-pasting and than manually putting those code tags back (which I did) seems pretty tedious.

If you have the latest firefox,
select the text, right context menu, View selection source
then paste into your textbox where you have a convenient template of

 <blockquote><i>  quoted </i></blockquote>
<p> response </p>
[download]

or

 <p><i> quoted </i></p>
<p> response </p>
[download]

or

 <dl>
<dt><p> quoted </p></dt>
<dd> response </dd>
</dl>
[download]

Sure, it will no longer be download-able code but no matter

The alternative is to use the xml link ( ?displaytype=xml;node_id=980252 ) and copy/paste from the original

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