No smiling matter!

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No smiling matter!

« on: April 24, 2018, 20:58:20 »

Quote from: martyjon on April 24, 2018, 20:45:35

The figures in square [] brackets are stated in the published document in () brackets but posting to the forum converts the closing ) to a smiley.

You wanted to write 990.8 in round brackets but got (990. Cool

... so you wrote [990.8]

Sensible solution.

Another approach is to put spaces around the number - that way you'll see ( 990.8 ).

Yet another solution is to add a useless tag pair if you really MUST get it bundled up. (990.8) ... written (990.8[i][/i])


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