Is there a way to preview my posts to this forum?

I don't see any Preview button anywhere on this screen and the search facility didn't show any either.

[David Goodmanson]

Hi Cynthia,

I don't believe so, but I would be happy to find out differently on this from a contributor. One alternative I have used for lack of anything better is, you already have a couple of questions in the system, one with an accepted answer. Those aren't going anywhere. You can post a test comment to one of those on any topic, take a look, then delete it in a timely manner.

[Image Analyst]

Why is it not already a preview as you type it in?

[Cynthia Moore]

I wondered about that. Maybe it is. In most of the forums I follow, the actual post will look different from the screen where it is entered. There will be additional formatting. I haven't used any LaTex or other features. In some forums, those show as codes as they are entered and are then formatted when posted or previewed. But I did notice that the numbered list shows as fully formatted, so you are probably right.

Thanks

[Cynthia Moore]

When I got an answer to my questions in my other posts, I was offered the option to accept the answer, which I did. I assume that is the recommended protocol so that unanswered questions can keep getting attention, right? When I first viewed this question, I believe the "Accept this Answer: button was there, but now, since I responded to the answer, I don;t see it anymore. Do I need to do something to mark this question answered or doesn't it matter?

Thanks. As a newbie here, I am still getting used to the way this forum works.

[David Goodmanson]

Hello Cynthia,

your question has not been answered yet (or if it has, whoever posted an answer subseqently withdrew it), so there is no answer to accept. Since it's all comments so far, it stays in the answer queue.

Answer 1

[Cynthia Moore]

I guess there won't be any more discussion here, so I'll submit this "answer" so I can close it. It seems like there ought to be a way to just close a thread even if there are no answers so we don't have to sumbit faux answers like this one.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

The current editor for MATLAB Answers on desktop is WYSIWYG and does not need much in the way of preview. The main difference is that the finalized post has horizontal scroll bars for command output that you do not get during post construction. That and the fact that you can use Copy on command output on the finalized output but not during post construction (which is a nuisance that I encounter in practice.)

The older editor is still available to people using mobile phones. Text entry is in a tab named Draft, but you can click over to a tab named Preview