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The problem with bold and italics

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 09:30

I've just figured out what it is. If you try to do two different bolded words in the same paragraph it ignores the middle two asterisks and bolds everything in between as well. The same is happening with italics.

e.g.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

VS

The quick brown fox
Jumps over the lazy dog

Also: (I don't know what this does, I thought I'd experiment)

The quickbrown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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onagar · 14/05/2011 12:08

It seems it will only work if one or more of the asterisks is at the start/end of a word with a space/newline next to it.

protest Works because it has a space/newline at the end
testate Works because it has a space/newline at the the start
detestable. Doesn't work because no spaces at either end.

This also prevents the use of both italic and bold together.

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AdamTech · 13/05/2011 15:59

@HopeEternal

Now, let us try and italicise some things.

Reminded me that I forgot to say it's also been changed for underlining and italics.

HopeEternal · 13/05/2011 15:36

Looking better, Adam. Thanks!

HopeEternal · 13/05/2011 15:36

Now, let us try and italicise some things.

HopeEternal · 13/05/2011 15:35

OK, this is a test.

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AdamTech · 13/05/2011 15:25

We've made some changes to how bolding works. Give it a try out and we'll make corrections where it's not quite working how you want.

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BertieBotts · 26/04/2011 20:44

And this thread. Twice, somewhere towards the end of page 1 and near the beginning of page 2 (I have 100 posts per page)

Hellooo? It's been over a week since you asked tech! Have we been forgotten, or do they just not know?

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RachelMumsnet · 18/04/2011 16:10

Hi there, we've reported this to tech so hopefully someone will come along and help out soonest. Sorry not to get back earlier.

HopeEternal · 18/04/2011 15:25

I think we're going to need Tech to come along and put us out of our misery.

I've looked at the codes for Bertie's OP and for my first post and I can't see any reason why it should have "worked" for Bertie (even though she didn't want it to!) and not "worked" for me.

RustyBear · 18/04/2011 14:27

Meant to preview, not post that....

RustyBear · 18/04/2011 14:26

So why did your a string of bold all get made bold but my brown fox jumps over the lazy didn't?

That's your post copied from viewing the source code - so the asterix after the a didn't register as ending the bolding, which meant that the one before the b of bold didn't register as starting a new bold section.

your a string of bold all get

your a. string of bold. all get

your a string of bold all get

your a string of bold all get

TrillianAstra · 18/04/2011 14:07

I would also like to know how things work.

There is definiteloy something about a requirement for a space before a beginning asterisk.

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BertieBotts · 18/04/2011 14:03

In my post at 13:08 they were both the same though. No return character. And in the OP there isn't even an automatic line break caused by the page ending.

I hate not knowing how things work!

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RustyBear · 18/04/2011 13:28

Think it might be something to do with return characters...

a
a*
an

a a* an

aa*an

Those three sets are exactly the same (a a* and an, all with asterisks at each end) but the first has a return character between each set, the second has a space and the third has nothing.

RustyBear · 18/04/2011 13:21

a a an

RustyBear · 18/04/2011 13:18

a lump of lead

RustyBear · 18/04/2011 13:17

a

a*

an

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BertieBotts · 18/04/2011 13:09

See - it did it again!

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BertieBotts · 18/04/2011 13:08

No that makes sense. So why did your a string of bold all get made bold but my brown fox jumps over the lazy didn't?

Confused
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HopeEternal · 17/04/2011 23:50

Sorry, Bertie, got distracted by RL.

In the first sentence I put an asterisk before and after bold and an up arrowhead before and after italicise.

In the second sentence there were asterisks before and after a and before and after bold. In that instance the system appears to have read the first and fourth asterisk as the tags and emboldened the whole phrase - including the second and third asterisks.

That should be clear as mud...

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 16:08

What did you do in your first post on this thread, Hope?

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BertieBotts · 17/04/2011 16:05

Yes I noticed that too MissAnthrope. But when it happened to me on a thread (thread is long and I don't know how to link to individual post) there were no problems with spacing or punctuation being too close...

Next time I see an obvious example I'll link it here.

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MissAnthrope · 17/04/2011 15:25

It seems to not work when incorrectly spaced, or next to punctuation.

ladyintheradiator · 17/04/2011 15:24

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