chuck172 said:
"I think the biggest thing i can do is switch to low temp baseboard which should give more bang for the buck "
Now you're cooking
p.s Can someone tell me how to use the quote feature?
There are all sorts of subtle approaches and methods...
1. When replying to a message, hit the "Quote" button at the bottom of the message, instead of the "Reply" button - that will paste the entire message in. You can then split it up further by sticking in the appropriate "BB codes"
2. Cut and paste the chunk of message you want to quote into a reply box, highlight it and hit the "quote" button on the top of the reply box - it will put the right BB codes around the highlighted bit...
3. Hit the quote button first, and you will get the start and end BB codes in the reply box, then stick the part you want to quote in between them.
4. Manually enter (or copy and paste) the codes in by hand (I do this a lot) - If you use the buttons you will see what the codes are, just type them in by hand... Most of the codes are a letter or word surrounded by square brackets then the stuff the code applies to, followed by a forward slash and the same code, again in square brackets.
5. You can "nest" several codes, and they will be applied from the inside out...
What you end up with using ANY of the methods is what you get in #4 -
The "Code" button is supposed to say "don't do anything with whatever is in this space, just display it as-is..." It is intended for stuff like computer code where you don't want to have the software changing what you enter... It SHOULD work for showing what these things do - but it doesn't!
![Mad :mad: :mad:](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/angry.gif)
When I previewed the message, it was still interpreting the stuff in the code blocks - so I'm going to do a substitution instead... In the samples, I'm replacing each left square bracket "[" with a left paren "(" and the same thing with the right square bracket...
so here is a block with some fun samples, followed by the same block without the code markers to show what it looks like...
Code:
This block was surrounded by "code" tags with a [b]bold[/b] tag inside to show what it should do but didn't?
(code)This block was surrounded by "code" tags with a (b)bold(/b) tag inside to show what it should do but didn't? (/code)
(b)this is bold text(/b)
(i)this is Italic text(/i)
(i)(b)This is text that has been bolded, italicized, and made different (size=5)sizes (/size)and (color=red)colors(/color)(/b)(/i)
(quote)This is a quote(/quote)
(quote)This is a quote with a (quote)nested quote(/quote) inside it(/quote)
(quote)This is a quote with part of it (b)bolded(/b) for emphasis(/quote)(/code)
Now for the SAME text with the proper square brackets around the codes
Code:
This block was surrounded by "code" tags with a [b]bold[/b] tag inside to show what it should do but didn't?
this is bold text
this is Italic text
This is text that has been bolded, italicized, and made different sizes and colors
This is a quote with a
inside it
This is a quote with part of it bolded for emphasis
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