Forum issue when enclosing word in "<" and ">"

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Hi,

I thought I should raise a very minor issue that I just encountered with the forum.

When I was trying to explain the Serial Input Basics tutorial (example 3) to an OP, I noticed that the forum is now automatically deleting a word that is enclosed between the symbols "<" and ">", which are the start and end markers that the author uses in the tutorial.

Example:

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This also appears to have botched any old posts that contained a word between "<" and ">", such as the following sentence from the same tutorial:

the string "qwertyzxcvb" is actually supposed to be:

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But “asdfg” is being deleted as it is enclosed within the “<” and “>” markers.

Hopefully this can be fixed.

Thanks.

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Those markers are part of the forum’s command language.

If you want to see the text, use back quotes around it

qwerty<asdfg>zxcvb

We used to be able to use the nobbc tag in the old forum
[nobbc]stuff here was not interpreted [/nobbc]
But it does not work anymore

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Little Bobby Tables strikes again?

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I have fixed it. Thanks for bringing this problem with a prominent tutorial to our attention. This was an unfortunate side effect of the forum being migrated to a different software framework some years back. Some of the posts from before that time no longer render as they did when written.

In this case, the problem is that support for using Markdown as a forum post markup was added, and this includes support for a safe subset of HTML tags. The support for Markdown is very useful because it allows us to have more control over the formatting of our posts, using a more well known and valuable markup language. But it also means that anything in a post that resembles an HTML tag is parsed as such by the Markdown renderer. In cases like this where the incidental tag is not on the list of supported "safe tags", it is suppressed.

If you spot other problems of this type, you can report them here or click the :black_flag: icon on the bottom of the post and raise a "Something Else" flag with an explanation of the problem. One of the moderators can fix the markup.

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Or use backslashes:
foo \<moo\> boo
foo <moo> boo

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Good one

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I suppose that you only fixed Robin's tutorial. Something else would take you the rest of your life and the forum software a couple of weeks :wink:

Just asking for a friend :smiley:

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yes

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I have a few tutorials to fix because of color tags or bold / italic tags inside the former TT tags (fixed width font)

So
[tt]http://192.168.1.29/[color=red]LED=1[/color][/tt]
Turned automatically into

`http://192.168.1.29/[color=red]LED=1[/color]`

And the color tags are no longer interpreted whereas I wanted 192.168.1.29/LED=1 But in fixed width font (and not over grey background) (and with http in front but the forum insists to interpret that as an URL and won’t color it if I type it)

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