Formatting with Markdown
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ruario last edited byForget it, It doesn't work.  Or really? @gwen-dragon  [@gwen-dragon](/profile/gwen-dragon)Yeah, ok you wouldn't want to do that every time. I agree it seems very broken! P.S. @ is an At symbol. 
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ruario last edited byWhat did you do to make it work? I wrote the HTML code I used in my previous posting. 
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linuxmint7 last edited by@ruario That's definitely a mouthful O.O. As you say, it's not something one would wish to do every time. Using the Bold formatting to highlight a persons user-name could be a quicker temporary option (for now). Although not click-able, it still makes it easier to see who someone is referring to. 
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blackbird71 last edited byThanks @ruario. Perhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames... 
  
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Deleted User last edited byPerhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames... @blackbird71 Sorry, but my GwenDragon can not be reactivated here, so i had to use Gwen-Dragon  @ruario The autoformatting of the Markdown implementation in forum does not work user freindlich, what a pitty. 
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blackbird71 last edited byPerhaps it'd be simpler just to get 'hyphenated' users to change their usernames... @blackbird71 Sorry, but my GwenDragon can not be reactivated here, so i had to use Gwen-Dragon ... It's not a problem for me, especially since I now have @ruario's "secret recipe" for how to enter such a name correctly here. But the forum notification system will probably not notify you if someone simply mentions your name in a forum post (which is what I originally was trying to do back at the beginning of all this)... assuming, of course, that you have notifications turned on. If somebody else simply enters @gwen-dragon to 'flag' you, the broken link becomes unrecognizeable, both by other users seeking your profile and by the system for notification purposes.  
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Deleted User last edited byYes, imho the parser code for usernames has a bug. the - is a allowed character in usernames, so the parser should not stop creating the profile link. 
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A Former User last edited by@jetro How do you get Enter in this thing stupid #%#ยค"&% forum type.. What do you mean? I type Enter to get a new line, but it won't register it. So I made loads of lines, and it interprets it as one line. That's why I thought this code interpretation for a forum was really annoying. I expressed it quite badly, sorry. Take a read of this thread, Jetro. 
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A Former User last edited byNo problem. The forum swallows underlines (interpreting them as formatting characters). Since I saw the italics in your post - and the BBcode - I knew exactly what happened. What if you put it within a pair of angles or backticks? 
 :idea:Testing: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_natural_history#Neoarchean_Era"  
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited byI believe you can probably double it like__this, and of course HTML/C style character escapes (backslash before the character) _ ... and I believe it recognizes quotation marks "_". Hmm, the doubled one still looks doubled, so no help. But the escaped one is fine (as expected). 
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A Former User last edited byI used angles in my example - it worked. 
 Try backticks, if you wish.
 What I'm having in mind is that there must be found a way - or two, simple one(s) - that we can officially recommend to users, especially new ones.
 The backtick might be harder to find on one's keyboard, but the angles - they must be pretty common, right? And it does work as it seems.
