User talk:Fishything

Welcome!

Hello,, 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: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;) for just your name. If you have any questions, you can post to the help desk or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!-gadfium 20:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC) H           H      IIIIIIIIIIIIIII H           H            II H            H            II H            H            II HHHHHHHHHHHHHH            II H            H            II H            H            II H            H            II H            H      IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
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You'll need to use pre tags for such text to show up properly. The wiki engine combines two lines which have no blank line between them, but you don't want to make each line of an ascii message like this one a separate paragraph. Also, the wiki combines multiple spaces into a single space. Pre, which is a standard html code, intended for preformatted code, turns this off. How does this look? H           H      IIIIIIIIIIIIIII H           H            II  H            H            II H            H            II HHHHHHHHHHHHHH            II H            H            II H            H            II H            H            II H            H      IIIIIIIIIIIIIII You could also try:

Hi

I'm sure you realise that such formatting would almost never be appropriate in the article section of the encyclopedia.

I suggest you use the Sandbox for these sort of experiments. There's nothing wrong with using your own talk page, but no one except me is likely to see the results. On the other hand, things don't usually last very long in the sandbox. Also, if you look at some of the links I gave above, you'll find much more interesting ways to format text.-gadfium 19:45, 2 September 2005 (UTC)