How does one reply to this? I will reply in bold print
In December 1951 two Californians...
You can delete any part of a quoted message you want in order to make it clearer what portion you are responding to. Just make sure you keep the code at the beginning and end of the quote. Note that I added the three dots to indicate that a part of your original quote was deleted. For example, your quote above looks like this with the BB (Bulletin Board) code:
Code:
[QUOTE="sam miller, post: 8005790, member: 8985"]How does one reply to this? I will reply in bold print
[B][I]
In December 1951 two Californians[/I][/B]...[/QUOTE]
The trick is to make sure that you keep this part to mark the beginning:
Code:
[QUOTE="sam miller, post: 8005790, member: 8985"]
And and this part to mark the end:
Code:
[/QUOTE]
Accidentally forgetting an opening or closing part, especially one of the square brackets like "[" or "]" will really confuse the Scubaboard BB editor. Changing the original quote beyond indicating what part you delete would be considered bad form. It is common to see parts in the middle of a quote deleted and indicated by inserting: <snip> as-in snipped out.
It is OK to emphasize a word or phrase with a color, bold, or underline in a quote as long as you indicate that you added it for clarity. For example:
How does one reply to this? I will reply in bold print
In December 1951 two Californians...
Red added for clarity.
Is this helpful? It took me a while to figure it out.