How to quote stuff

How to quote stuff

I think this was helpful to people last semester, so I thought I'd post the same thing again. There are a couple of ways to make text become quoted, like this:

"History was really God all along" --Tolstoy, p. 4000

Just select text and click the quote marks below on the left:

select and click

A better way might be use the "Edit HTML" tab, which you can see in the top left in the image above. This way, you can format your paragraphs too if you want.

HTML isn't code. It's just like quotation marks or parentheses which demarcate text for the reader. Except instead of quotation marks, you put these things on either side of the selected text:

<blockquote>what you want quoted goes here</blockquote>

what you want quoted goes here

You can make paragraphs in the same way, so that your text doesn't end up one big lump of words. Just use these "p" things.

<p>blah blah</p>

blah blah

Note that, just as ( starts a parenthesis and ) ends it, the "blockquote" or "p" starts it and the "/blockquote" and "/p" ends it.