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Bold and italics

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tech · 10/11/2004 21:25

We are thinking of letting members add bold and italics to messages for emphasis. Being of the old school I don't wholeheartedly approve of such new-fangl ednesses, but hmm... Anyway, I figured we'd use [b]bold section[/b] and [i]italic section[/i] for italics (too much WordPerfect reveal codes in my youth). Anyone have any better ideas?
Of course, they'd display as bold and italic in the message.

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WigWamBam · 11/11/2004 21:11

Tech - any chance of making it so that we can emphasise more than one word at a time? Typing a sentence making every word bold is a pita

JanH · 11/11/2004 21:09

I like zebra's suggestion, tech!

nikcola · 11/11/2004 20:53

no

nikcola · 11/11/2004 20:53

does it work

melsy · 11/11/2004 20:39

Test

testtesttest

-TEST-

cos when I tried it with more than one word it didnt work on a post just before. Just realised you cant bold several words together in a sentance , like in this paragraph.

zebra · 11/11/2004 20:32

Tech, what about a different syntax for italics? Maybe like this?

Davros · 11/11/2004 17:23

tech - wordperfect sooooo much better than MS Word but MS have taken over the world of course.

motherinferior · 11/11/2004 16:42

fine!!! At last!!!

(MI ponders doing links too)...

motherinferior · 11/11/2004 16:41

Oh /right/, like this?

SoupDragon · 11/11/2004 16:41

Give poor tech a break

motherinferior · 11/11/2004 16:40

[i]why not[/i]???

motherinferior · 11/11/2004 16:40

[i]like this [/]?

beansmum · 11/11/2004 14:17

just testing

dogwalker · 11/11/2004 14:09

Sorry to keep this /thread/ going but just had to try this. Obviously italics not working though.

Marina · 11/11/2004 10:12

Chuh, should read whole thread before whingeing. Sorry

Marina · 11/11/2004 10:11

And what went wrong with my italics

Marina · 11/11/2004 10:11

just /testing/ thanks Tech, I will allow your slur on the wonderful early versions of WordPerfect to pass unchallenged in gratitude

KangaMummy · 11/11/2004 10:01

ok thanks tech

popsycal · 11/11/2004 09:50

aaaaaah

TeriS · 11/11/2004 09:49

Can't get the italics to work either....

tech · 11/11/2004 09:48

I had to turn italics off so that it didn't mess up links... if it saw a link like news.bbc.co.uk/a/b/c it was trying to put the a and b in italics, and breaking the link. I'm just fixing it

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AuntyQuated · 11/11/2004 09:48

bold

underlines

/italics/

AuntyQuated · 11/11/2004 09:47

/yes/

AuntyQuated · 11/11/2004 09:46

/have italics gone then/

TeriS · 11/11/2004 09:46

Sorry, just testing...bold underline /italics/