[Info-vax] new HP OpenVMS public forum now live

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Sture wrote 2011-07-01 17:22:
> In article<iuk98k$5qa$1 at news.albasani.net>,
>   Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  wrote:
>
>> They have probably *not* done any conversion at the time of the
>> migration. The mapping of ":P" to the img-tag is done at display
>> time by the server on-the-fly. The stored content is still ":P".
>>
>> This is absolutely 100% standard forum functionallity today.
>>
>
> Yes, but other forum software I use allows you to mark text to be
> displayed "as is" - cf the HTML<pre>  and</pre>  tags.
>
> I can't find that option if I try a reply on the new HP forum.
>

Usualy something like [code]...[/code] or similar.
Or [quote]...[/quote] if you do not want a fixed space font.

But that is, of course, used for larger chunks of text, not
a single 2-char sequence like ":P".