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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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popsycal · 11/11/2004 09:40

aaaaaahhhhh

WigWamBam · 11/11/2004 09:32

Italics don't work any more, popsycal

popsycal · 11/11/2004 09:30

hmmm
what did i do wrong with italics?

popsycal · 11/11/2004 09:30

test
/test/
test

KangaMummy · 11/11/2004 09:13

you could get lists dogs\cats\fish

so please could we have italics back again

just use the \ instead of /

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WigWamBam · 11/11/2004 08:33

I don't know, but I'd prefer italics to underline or bold!

vict17 · 11/11/2004 08:31

Do you think they decided to not bother with italics as people might not know when to use bold or italics?

WigWamBam · 11/11/2004 08:27

Tech? What's happened to our italics?

WigWamBam · 11/11/2004 08:22

You can't get italics either then, vict?

vict17 · 11/11/2004 08:22

/italics/ didn't work for me either

vict17 · 11/11/2004 08:21

hello hello /hello/

WigWamBam · 11/11/2004 08:19

Why can't I make /italics/ work?

Bold is fine, so is underscore, but /italics/ doesn't work!

Tinker · 10/11/2004 23:33

I am very excited about this. Trouble is, I'll angst about whether when I use bold it would be more appropriate to use italics

spacemonkey · 10/11/2004 23:29

mm i think there is a problem with links now

spacemonkey · 10/11/2004 23:29

test

KangaMummy · 10/11/2004 23:10

I have just found that if you do dogs / cats / fish are great without the spaces it does

dogscatsfish are great

makes interesting lists

KateandtheGirls · 10/11/2004 23:09

Really cool!

tech · 10/11/2004 23:00

It should all work now even links next to smileys.

It might still go a bit haywire if there are no spaces when a link follows a smiley. I'll look again. hmm.

OP posts:
coppertop · 10/11/2004 22:56

Oooh! Yes please, JanH.

colinsmommy · 10/11/2004 22:55

nope

lydialemon · 10/11/2004 22:55

so this is why i couldn't swear properly on the other thread!

colinsmommy · 10/11/2004 22:55

/Does it work for more than one word?/

JanH · 10/11/2004 22:55

coppertop, while you're here, I found the 2 hologram twirlers - do you want them? Shall I CAT you?