Can't enter the text "XMP" followed by colon

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​@Nancy OShea The Embedded Code feature is more precise than text. It preserves formatting & permits syntax highlighting in scripts.  Also, it’s much easier to copy long lines of code with a single-click on the double box icon.  Personally, I think it’s a great feature. Not sure what you have against it.

Using Code boxes isn’t relevant to writing about photo metadata in the Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw.  There are thousands of fields in many different sections of metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, Photoshop, etc.), and the different sections often have similarly named fields, e.g. both the EXIF and XMP sections have a field named DateTimeOriginal. So the most common way of unambiguously referencing fields in prose is to use the Exiftool notation, e.g. 

I have hundreds of posts in the Adobe and Lightroom Queen forums that use this notation, often with a dozen or more uses of the notation in a single post.

For example, here is what I wanted to write in a recent bug report:

Using a code box to reference the metadata field XMP<colon>AlreadyApplied would be needlessly verbose and disruptive to easy reading of the prose -- its referring to a field name, not to a code fragment or script.

I suppose P colon could be interpreted as an ASCII obscenity. 

Think long & hard about it. 😉

XMP is used in ExtendScript and Javascript

The Embedded Code feature is more precise than text. It preserves formatting & permits syntax highlighting in scripts.  Also, it’s much easier to copy long lines of code with a single-click on the double box icon. 

Personally, I think it’s a great feature. Not sure what you have against it.

i’m just saying there are ways around it.

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