Does the whisper tag sometimes not work?

It seems to be working fine. But you have to be precise. Use only two dashes and no space afterwards like this.

Just make sure you aren’t putting a space between the dashes and your words.

Make sure there’s a space before it, though, or it’s the first thing on the line. I’m guessing the actual syntax is not simply text enclosed between two double hyphens but, explicitly, text that begins with space-hyphen-hyphen or linereturn-hyphen-hyphen and ends with hyphen-hyphen-space or hyphen-hyphen-linereturn.

There’s also a trick when combining it with the @ to address somebody. Type the @ + name first, so it becomes a link, and then add the two preceding hyphens. If you type the hyphens first, the link doesn’t get invoked.

Ohh! Thanks, @gailcalled @essieness and @Jeruba (& specificity should be most helpful for future reference!).

Here is my “fail” method after not being able to do it correctly despite private instruction from Andrew.

I copy and paste the symbol that appears below the dialogue box. Works like a charm!

It didn’t work for me on one post today. I edited it over and over and no matter what I did my dashes posted as a connected line. I tried it in a different post and it worked fine.

Note: If you’re whispering for more than a paragraph, you have to put the whisper tags around each paragraph separately.

And you cannot whisper inside monospaced typeface. The html tags precipitate out of the textile process:

<small>doesn’t work</small>

Same holds true for other text accents:

<strong>bold</strong>, <em>italics</em>,

Hyperlinks, on the other hand, work fine:
link

Thanks guys. I guess I must of messed it up somehow.

@elijahsuicide I noticed the same. That could well be what instigated me asking this.

@robmandu We can use html here? Sweet!

@resmc, sorry, I must not have stated it correctly.

No, you cannot use html tags here. You must use textile markup instead.

My example above was to show how Fluther’s implemetation of textile markup can be easily botched so that it yields unprocessed html tags. That is to say, it’s a bug.

Oh, i see. Assumed the way it was botched was a fancy font tag, haha.

Is it okay to use HTML in order to get that monospace type?

@resmc…

No, straight html will not work (the greater and less than symbols are merely converted to & gt ; and & lt ;, respectively (sans spaces) . You have to use textile markup.

To get monospace typeface, surround your text with @ symbols. There must be no space between the @ and the adjacent letters. And no carriage returns—that is, you must bookend each paragraph with @ symbols… same is true for the other markup options.

It can be a little tricky when you want to use the @person capability, as that’s something different but can trip up the textile markup interpreter if you try to use it in the same paragraph as some monospace text.

Ah, i see… thanks. Never encountered textile before, but i like it… tho knowing more html, it can be hard to get out of the habit of it (like, when used to typing <a href> for links).

@resmc… I kinda have the problem in the other direction. Like when in an email, I keep trying to place underscores around words I want italicized.

@robmandu I’ve done that too, LOL.