Did you really intend your post to be such a mixture of unclosed tags, mixed font-weight and -style, etc? And if so, please clarify how is it supposed to differ from BrowserUk's above.

Whether or not the appearance of your post reflects inadequate previewing or not, it's quite plausible (to me, anyway) that many posters eliminate the "Preview" button when creating a node, or treat it as so many treat an "accept this license" box during software installs; that is, as something to click through as quickly (and carelessly) as possible.

Sorry if this sounds snarky (and I'm not trying to suggest that you're among those who simply haven't read the docs), but many of the formatting problems here are created by those who haven't understood them.

We can't cure the former, except by gentle guidance and by making the markup docs easier to follow, which might also automagically address the latter.

Puff: Please see Markup in the Monastery for one attempt at enhancing the guidance.

In reply to Re^3: newbies, <code> tags and recognizing perl by ww
in thread newbies, <code> tags and recognizing perl by pc88mxer

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