A big improvement to posting would be.......

[fruitshootsandheaves]

to be able to make a whole line or block of text bold, italic, underlined etc without having to put the asterisks etc on every individual word.
I was just posting on the feedback thread for my joggler and it would have been great to be able to put my whole answer in italic or bold to stand out from the questions but it would have taken me 3 days to put in all the asterisks!

Can we have it so that we put our text in brackets with the symbols either side of the brackets. This would be fab.

Go on Techies, I'm sure its really easy to set up.

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[Littlefish]

Brill idea fruitshootsandheaves. As long as people promise not to put their whole messages in bold, or italics or whatever. That would be very annoying.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

oooh yes, good call fsh

gwan YMtech, I will love you forever

Oh yeah, I do already

[HelenMumsnet]

Oooh, thanks for the suggestion.

Will present it to the next meeting of the Text Decoration Sub-committee...

[BecauseImWorthIt]

[notwavingjustironing]

and tickers

[lljkk]

All tHIS IN BOLD
^All This in italics^.
Would that syntax make sense to others?

[Littlefish]

Makes sense to me lljk.