Ricebug on 15/8/2014 at 12:27

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I don't know where else to put this, so...

If I wanted to edit a previous post, how do I do strikeout text? (Where the sentence has a line running through its middle.)

nickie on 15/8/2014 at 13:37

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For future reference, the (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode) BB Code link is listed in the Fan Missions Links thread under Miscellaneous.

nickie on 15/8/2014 at 14:10

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That's a question for Al_B but I'll make sure he sees your request.

ZylonBane on 15/8/2014 at 15:53

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Okay, you do realize that the strikeout line is a convention used to indicate deletion of text on paper, yes? Because the printed word isn't generally susceptible to erasing? But we're all on computers here. If you want to delete something, you don't have to indicate it, you just do it. Zap, gone. There's a reason the strikeout has become such a rarely-seen bit of electronic formatting.

Now if you want to maintain a to-do list, that's what checkmarks are for. If you don't want the completed items to be deleted, but rather to remain, to be read, then inflicting formatting on them that makes them significantly harder to read seems a bit perverse. You monster.

ZylonBane on 15/8/2014 at 18:29

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Surely you mean checkboxes, not checkmarks. Unless you want to initially declare everything as done, then go back and undo them.

Anyway, most people are perfectly happy sticking an "X" to the left of things, or just writing "Done" after them, but if you're determined to get fancy I suppose you could whip out the Unicode characters.

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