Hi @Christian_R,
I have been trying for some to improve my own replies (which can be quite numerous and verbose and even border on off-topic !), and I happened to see your topic:
It is very good, but I have a specific query which should not enter in this topic, but you might be the right person to ask for help.
When you start drafting a reply, you do have spontaneous tips appearing on the right of the Edit box. Sometimes very relevant, sometimes less. Recently I saw one for the first time that was totally relevant to the moment, about using Reply quoting to reply simulatenously to several posts in the topic. I jumped out of the Edit box to browse the previous posts, only to discover that
The tip has vanished (and woul not come back)
I had not memorized enough the instructions for this “quoting” to be able to identify the widget to use!
So I have 2 requests:
How can I do this quoting the next time the occasion arises?
Is there a way to browse such tips?
Sorry to bother you, but I have failed to locate the answers by simple searching.
Hi @pmc.galoubet, thank you for you interest on how to better use the Forum functionalities.
I have to admit that I don’t have an answer to you request, since I actually don’t create many threads, but rather answer other threads (and maybe the spontaneous tips appear differently if you are the creator of the thread).
I am sure though that someone more expert on this can answer your questions. Maybe @Steve (that created that original post that I re-linked) can make some suggestion about your requests.
When you want to quote something (if I understand your needs), you can (while remaining in the editor), scroll to the post, that you want to quote, select the desired text, and a little overlay menu will appear and you can choose Quote (that will put the Quote where your blinking text cursor is in your editor), or Copy Quote and then paste the quote in the desired place of your editor.
If you want to insert a whole post in your editor you can scroll to the desired post and you click on the Chain icon below the post to copy the link to that post, and you can then paste it to a new line of your editor, or select a/some word/s in your text, and click then the Chain that you see on the top of your editor, and paste the link there, that will turn then the text in a blue link.
I hope this can be of some help, and that I understood your needs. Otherwise I am sure someone will reply with better tips.
Thanks a lot anyway .
There was a way to use some quoting facility to make my reply sent simultaneously to more than one person. At least that is what I remember. So essentially the most important for me would be to know how to make that tip come back, ideally how to browse all the tips.
Yes, of course that is the first thing I read. But I do not find there all the tips, some advanced, that I occasionally see popping while I draft. And when I seeone what I like, and do not remember emough of it to exploit it, I do nit know how to hunt for it.
I don’t think I’ve seen this one, but I’ll keep and eye out for it and circle back to this thread if/when I do.
I was hoping the guide might address your fourth point about browsing those tips. I haven’t had time to check, but I wonder whether Discourse’s more in-depth guide does:
I only saw this one once, and I had already seen a lot of them. I am not even sure what I was doing for it to popup, certainly I was facing a king of embarassment about choosing the post I should attach my next reply to, because there were choices, but my thinking will nit be enough to invoke the Aladdin lamp’s genie !
I just loaded the “Discourse” guide which I did no know about, it will take some time to read it throigh but it already looks promising, My bet is that even if I do not find the specific tip I am looking for, I shall surely find a lot of answers to similar unertainties or problems.
SO thank you very much.
@pmc.galoubet, I’ve been searching the Discourse site for variations on “reply multiple.” I wonder if this is what you saw:
(It’s probably worth mentioning here as well that, as I understand it, Discourse is a platform that Steinberg purchases access to, and they decide which available features to implement/include. So when reading Discourse’s site we might find things that aren’t available to us here.)
The Discourse doc make very interesting reading, a lot of info in the same place. Still we are out of Dorico wold, probably even Steinberg world, I think possibliy Dorico world improves on that.
Why do I think so? Well, first I found quoting info, about what @Christian_R said in his first replu, which made it easier for me to try it, and I think this fits with what I am looking for, but it is not clear to me how I can use it to make a multiple-recipient Reply. So maybe there is somewhere some tip dorico-specific about it. And in an analogous, but much more minor way, Discourse shows how to enter bold or italic text for emphasis, but they stop there as far as font styles go, yet I discovered that in the Dorico Forum (at least) we may also enter strikethrough text!
So I will continue to hunt for a better “multiple-recipient Reply” specific Dorico tip .
Still I will attempt to do the quoting stuff on Christian id to see whether it creates a link from my reply to his:
