Hi. There's not really a "help" forum on the BB, so I hope this is on-topic here. (If not, please feel free to forward it to a more appropriate forum.)
While working on a post, I found myself in a position where I needed to post a literal [ I ] (without the spaces, of course) - not to tag text as italic, but to supply missing information from an abbreviated quotation.
As you would expect, the forum software interpreted it as an italics tag, turning the remainder of my post into italic text.
Is there any way to "escape" UBBCode as literal text, or to fool the forum into thinking it isn't a tag? I can find nothing in the documentation, either on this forum or in any other implementations of BBCode I have looked up on the Web. (I also don't want to disable code entirely for the post, if it can be avoided.)
If someone wanted to write a post about how to use BBCode, how could they do it?
While working on a post, I found myself in a position where I needed to post a literal [ I ] (without the spaces, of course) - not to tag text as italic, but to supply missing information from an abbreviated quotation.
As you would expect, the forum software interpreted it as an italics tag, turning the remainder of my post into italic text.
Is there any way to "escape" UBBCode as literal text, or to fool the forum into thinking it isn't a tag? I can find nothing in the documentation, either on this forum or in any other implementations of BBCode I have looked up on the Web. (I also don't want to disable code entirely for the post, if it can be avoided.)
If someone wanted to write a post about how to use BBCode, how could they do it?