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unshameless bump. As I spent a while before I found this very useful guide of yours. bump.

I was going to add an extra trick I had not seen described, but when I went fishing for a quote of something to respond to
I noticed that you had already used the technique even if I had not seen you describe it.

I now will....



Note i have tweaked(aka changed) the red part of the quote to make the effect more visually evident. There look like there are BBcode tags[...] but they apparently did not get rendered as BBcode tags[...]....

Q1: how do you, or in this case me, suppress the BBcode translation in or, for the purpose writing guides explaining how to use them.
A1: put the example text in [code] [/code] blocks... (the most common solution used in this thread, and while that is clear it breaks the flow of the text so....)

Q2: but how did I do it inline just above?
A2: I used this text [[i][/i]code] [[i][/i]/code] . You can see that yourself if you quote this post.
Why2 does that work?: I suspect the server rendering program like other code I have also not seen, is not implemented as a stateful full recursive descent parser, as they are harder to make hack proof... (It is also then much harder to test that you have.)
Why is that important?: There is an unlikely possibility that one day the undocumented feature of this ([[i][/i]code] [[i][/i]/code]) working will cease.
As an enduser do you or should you care?: probably not. Indeed I mainly mention it to visibly document that it is a feature that now has been relied on.


and just because you know i have to do it....

Q2: but how did I do it inline just above?
A2: I used this text [[[i][/i]i][[i][/i]/i]code] [[[i][/i]i][[i][/i]/i]/code] . You can see that yourself if you quote this post.


Q3: There are not more questions. Why?
A3: The head of everyone except, LISP programmers, and POSIX based picket fence coders, just now exploded.... and the former two groups may well now be AFK for a while..... oh, ooops my bad: C&C warning. >:P

BTW: If the above does not make sense to you don't worry, it probably was not meant to and is very likely unimportant to you.