Re: Purpose of "?

2019-01-19 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
Thanks, Alex. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > There shouldn't be any examples of " in the actual script. > > It's an anomaly from HTML - in order to display a quote sign in an HTML > document, you need

Re: Purpose of "?

2019-01-19 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
There shouldn't be any examples of " in the actual script. It's an anomaly from HTML - in order to display a quote sign in an HTML document, you need to use the form of "    so this has been copied/pasted (or something like that) between a a simple document/text file and an HTML file, and fini

Purpose of "?

2019-01-19 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
In this discussion of the use of the merge function at: http://newsletters.livecode.com/august/issue55/newsletter2.php The samples use quot; extensively. For example: on mouseUp put merge("[[quote]]Foobar[[quote]] [[the short name of \ this stack]]") & return & \ merge("[[the layer of