User talk:JeremyCastle

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Hello JeremyCastle, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Fixing Talk page comments

In answer to your email: Do not put any spaces at the beginning of a line. When you do that

the text looks like this. It is monospaced with no carriage returns, so the line will continue until the next line break.

The format is sometimes used for tables of numbers, but it is probably most often used in an article on a computer programming language for showing the code for a computer program in that language. Look at the Prolog article, which has numerous examples, or most of the other articles in Category:Programming languages.

Are you using some other program to do your editing, and then pasting it into the edit field, or are you typing directly into the edit field? BlankVerse ∅ 13:32, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Nope, I am just typing directly into the edit user talk box. It should look normal now, as I am not indenting anymore. I thought indenting was proper writing/typing, but not in Wikipedia I guess. Jer 17:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)JeremyCastle

For replies on the Wikipedia, you usually indent using a colon (:). As you can see above, I moved your reply since discussions on the Wikipedia are usually sequential instead of interleaved, and I indented your reply using one colon. My reply then used two colons to further indent. As for proper writing, I know that business correspondence is generally no indents, and with one blank line between paragraphs. BlankVerse ∅ 17:48, 14 October 2005 (UTC)