Re^2: Formatting Tips

I'd go even farther and modify the help text right under the edit box to include your advice to use at least <p></p> and <c></c> The current help text ( If you think you're going to use <pre> tags — don't! Use <code> tags instead! This applies to data as well as code. ) is too small and not visible enough IMO.

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Re^3: Formatting Tips by jethro (Monsignor) on Feb 20, 2009 at 02:15 UTC
My main concern with that sentence "If you think you're going to use pre tags..." is it talks only to the few who would have thought of using pre tags here, or at least KNOW what a pre tag does. To tell you the truth, if I hadn't read that sentence on perlmonks so often, my knowledge about a pre tags would still amount to zero. That sentence should simply be "Use code-tags for code and data". Not as clever or witty but to the point.	[reply]

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Re^3: Formatting Tips
by jethro (Monsignor) on Feb 20, 2009 at 02:15 UTC

My main concern with that sentence "If you think you're going to use pre tags..." is it talks only to the few who would have thought of using pre tags here, or at least KNOW what a pre tag does. To tell you the truth, if I hadn't read that sentence on perlmonks so often, my knowledge about a pre tags would still amount to zero.

That sentence should simply be "Use code-tags for code and data". Not as clever or witty but to the point.

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