First off, read this BBCode FAQ. The "language" is a simple replacement language that replaces the simple BBCode with HTML when it displays in the forum. But, like HTML, the opening and closing "tags" or enclosing code have to be just right. It's not hard, you just have to keep a sharp eye.
To to reply to a post with the intent of quoting someone, just click the QUOTE button on their post (in this forum theme it is one of the small silver buttons in the upper right of a post, with the right-pointing arrow.) A new reply window will automatically appear with their text in BBCode quote tags. You can edit their text to just include the relevant parts, but these tag must remain at the least:
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[quote="zane"]Zane said this[/quote]
And it will appear like this:
zane wrote:Zane said this
The critical part is that the closing tag has a forward slash before the tagname.
Sometimes you'll want to "nest" quotes or other BBcode tags. Think of them as working outside-in:
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[quote="somebody else"]
[quote="zane"]Zane said this[/quote]
And he sounded like a dunce when he did.
[/quote]
Will look like this:
somebody else wrote:zane wrote:Zane said this
And he sounded like a dunce when he did.
Clicking the QUOTE button on a post that already contains a quote will automatically create this "nesting" for you.
This is just one example. All the BBCode tags are pretty much the same. If you use the buttons at the top of the text input area, be careful; they sometimes don't work properly when closing tags so you have to make sure all is right.
Keep in mind that when posting, clicking the Preview button will show you what your post is going to look like when it's submitted. You can make changes and keep clicking that Preview button until it looks just right(I previewed 5 times just for this post), the click Submit. You can click the Edit button to make changes after that.
