Some of the discussions through comments at this blog have been long and involved, and I thank all the participants for making this a more interesting place.
Comments here on WordPress can use HTML, so I wanted to give a couple of suggestions in case you want to make comments a little easier to read.
To quote a previous post or comment: surround the quoted material with <blockquote> and </blockquote>.
To italicize something: surround the words to be italicized with <em> and </em>.
To insert a hyperlink: surround the text to get the link like this: <a href=”entire URL goes here”> and </a>.
And it doesn’t hurt to start with the name of the person you’re replying to. Example:
Frank:
<blockquote>That was a savagely witty comment.</blockquote>
Thanks! You’ll find <em>nothing but</em> savage wit at <a href=”https://galileounchained.com/“>Galileo Unchained</a>.
Becomes:
Frank:
That was a savagely witty comment.
Thanks! You’ll find nothing but savage wit at Galileo Unchained.
Related links:
- HTML 4.0 specification, 1977
Galileo Unchained 
Practicing HTML.
Keith Brown’s review of Cross Examined: An Unconventional Spiritual Journey:
Reply to myself–Citydude72: My hyperlink didn’t work, so gonna try it one more time.
Purchase Bob’s book here: Cross Examined: An Unconventional Spiritual Journey
Hmmm…still didn’t work, oh well.
Do it like this:
Purchase the book here: <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Examined-Unconventional-Spiritual-Journey/dp/1468011332″>Cross Examined</a>.
Which looks like this:
Purchase the book here: Cross Examined.
And of course the metaquestion, Bob, is “How do you tell somebody how to use HTML without having your pre-HTML (typed) examples appear in their post-HTML (published) formatting?”. For example, I used an HTML command to generate boldface in the previous sentence, but I can’t show you in THIS sentence what I typed without inadvertently activating the HTML again. But you were able to do it somehow. What is your secret, O wizard?
Incidentally, the boldfaced words were “pre” and “post”, but they don’t look very bold in this font.
I looked up the special codes for the less-than and greater-than symbols here. Not using the actual symbols means that the text won’t be interpreted as valid HTML.