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 This can cause problems when somebody moves from using Cumulus 1 to using MX. They need to revisit any templates or scripts where they use output modifiers to specify a date and/or time format. We have already explored a very simple impact of this for [[Webtags#The_format_used_for_naming|NOAA report naming]].
-For web tags it is much more complicated, not only do we need to select the right case, we also have to cope with MX selectors having different meanings when they are on their own and when they appear with other selectors, finally where you put quotes within these format specifiers varies between Cumulus 1 and MX partly because the reserved characters change and partly because MX introduces the concept of escaping characters.
+For web tags it is much more complicated, not only do we need to select the right case, we also have to cope with MX selectors having different meanings when they are on their own and when they appear with other selectors, finally where you put quotes within these format specifiers varies between Cumulus 1 and MX partly because the reserved characters change, and partly because MX introduces the concept of escaping characters and in MX space in some cases may need to be within the single quotes containing other literals (as space can modify the interpretation of a modifier character).
 '''Confused even more now?''' I'm not surprised, but maybe some examples will help before we actually list the available modifiers.