I have an enhancement request to QuickEdit. It may well complicate the pattern-matching far too much to be worth it. Could we consider automatically transforming *foo* into foo?

Signed, Did Too Much Typing on Usenet

But
i foo
gets you foo.

Sometimes I just want to say *foo*, and sometimes I mean foo.

Just got for a quote: "Hey, man, where are my pants, I have my hippo dignity. Oz", without an episode name ("What's My Line, II").

If somebody has more quotes, where should they be sent to?

I'm with ita. *foo* is (though obviously not when I'm writing of the fanfic) not the same as foo to me. And mwah doesn't have the same impact as *mwah*

So, I vote stet.

Nilly, Hec's the official collector. Thanks for the correction -- it's been made.

Sometimes I just want to say *foo*, and sometimes I mean foo.

Wrod. There's really a stress difference, as I hear it.

t edited because quickedit doesn't wrk inside itself

Thanks, ita. You, once again, prove how much you rock (um, krav should be proud to have you).

Oh. Okay.

At first blush, the coding and database design for the quizzes as John described them is no simpler than the coding for the episode guide.

I'm confused. The database design for the quiz is incredibly simple. One main table with questions. One table containing categories. One cross-reference table which identifies which categories go with which questions.

So you'd have:

Question [ID 0001] Name That Ep -- exhausted after fighting Adam, Buffy and the Scooby gang have a series of strange dreams in which they're pursued by a stone-age Slayer.

• Bedrock
• Sleepless
• Restless

And you'd have a table of categories, which would include:

...
Category [ID 0074] Questions About Season Five
Category [ID 0075] Xander's Sex Life
Category [ID 0076] Other Slayers
Category [ID 0077] Dream Sequence-A-Rama
Category [ID 0078] Buffy's Boyfriends
...

And you'd just need the matching table which would show that the question belonged to the appropriate categories:

QuestionCategory00010074 00010076 00010077

Whereas the Ep Guide was much more multidimensional, just because of problems like "Joss is sometimes a writer, sometimes a director, sometimes a producer and sometimes a composer" and required a lot more cross-referencing.

Have I missed something obvious?

I'm not in the least little bit saying we shouldn't do the episode guide. That was my idea too!

I definitely think we should do both.

One of the issues we'd have to take on board with the Ep Guide is some kind of check-out, check-back-in system, so that you could go to edit the entry for "Restless" to be told "Sorry, Hec has that one checked out at the moment" so as to prevent clashes and version problems.

The questions wouldn't require that kind of level of complexity just to get started.

But I don't want to argue the merits of either, like I said, just to re-state my (possibly mistaken) belief that the quiz is techically simpler than the guide.

Database design's already done for the episode guide, was my point, and one of the tables already implemented.