In short, it was a not a near miss with a slight typographical correction to be made.

Yes, changing ',' to ';' and inserting a ' is anything but slight typographical correction (no, I didn't write it, just FYI). (:

it still doesn't flow since there is no clear antecedent for "it".

Where could that antecedent be in "...your post; it's..."? Boy, that is hard to find! Granted, there are other possible choices that work as well or better, but that one works just fine. :)

In any case, I've corrected the mistake of it only being on the form for replies (well, there are a couple of less-used forms that still lack it) and made it much clearer, IMHO:

Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":

And, just in case anybody wonders, no, we won't make that "PerlMonks-approved HTML" a link to Perl Monks Approved HTML tags, despite that seeming an obvious improvement. Unfortunately, doing so would make Tab no longer take one from the "title" field to the "body text" area (in both browsers).

But such a link should be added below the text area. Such used to be included there but somebody complained (IIRC) about those hints saying "Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place" which was deemed inappropriate except when posting a root node. I (now) disagree, in part because we have no shortage of people posting replies that should be root nodes.

So I'll probably add (all of) those hints back for replies eventually if nobody beats me to it.

I would rewrite the sentence.

Not s/would/did/? Well, I won't go searching through the pedantry of this thread looking for it, then. If you actually have a clearer rendition of those instructions to offer, then please point such out or include such in a reply to this node. Thanks in advance.

- tye        

In reply to Re^5: Improved instructions (fixed) by tye
in thread Improved instructions by John M. Dlugosz

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


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