Is anybody going to answer the bold/italics thread?

[BertieBotts]

Because it's still broken, and my thread has been ignored for weeks now.

Where is it, i may answer it! x

Hello. What bold/italics thread?

Sorry, BertieBotts - are you saying bold and italics are broken for you?

tests tests

Bertie, the Tech team tell me they're on the case...

Oh sorry, totally forgot to link it! This one.

Yes - I've asked a few times too - but it does seem to be being ignored.

Helen - they've been saying that for ages!

I've posted. :)

(i'm bolding a phrase within brackets. With punctuation)

now with italics.
(and italics within brackets with more than one italicised)

doesn't like the bracket, but it's okay with the full-stop.

Am off to have a look!

Thanks Adam :)

Does multiple bolded words in one sentence now work correctly?

Yup!

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.

I accidentally did bold and italic together once!

See I did it again

Ah but not with the * next to the ^ :o

Mary had a little lamb won't work.

but Mary had a little lamb will.

My head hurts!

But how about little lamb?

You think this is bad? I'm the guy who has to make it work on a forum where you can have bold, italic, color, size, underlined, quoted, 5 kinds of font and 3 kinds of justification. :o

Okay, people mostly only use one at a time, but it has to work if someone does this:

[align=center][font=courier][size=20]mary [i]had[/i] a [b][u]little[/u][/b] [color=royalblue]lamb[/color][/size]
[/font][/align]

Isn't that just BBcode though? So it already exists!

I think this thread just melted my head

Yeah essentially BBcode. In my case adapted a bit. Maybe MN should just get that instead of writing their own from scratch. They could leave out all the fancy stuff.