Bold and italics

[tech]

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.

I don't understand the tech of it

but why can't the word be put in { and }
or ( and ) ?

WordPerfect? ewww! Can't we just have control I, control B or something? Otherwise I will stick to asterisks

I think one word at a time is good - the BBC boards do it that way (word for bold, word for underlining); mind you with /word/ for italics you have to leave at least 2 and sometimes 3 spaces between words if you want to italicise a whole phrase (and even then it doesn't always work reliably so you get some words italic and some not).

OK, we'll maybe do that then.
bold
underine
/italic/

-- may as well do something people are used to. Easier to type as well.

sounds good tech

Well it will certainly be easier for us but how will it be for you ?

I like the idea of complex codes that are hard to understand ... thus limited irritating and inappropriate over-use

I understood what Tech meant in the first post

ha ha roisin, there is a case for that! Tech, oh thank you, thank you! We can't wait!

This is a test message But you can still put an and another and the odd / if you want. Not to mention as long as there are spaces between them.

Now don't tell me I'm always slow. Try it out (waits for it to go wrong in spectacular fashion).

Don't know what you mean, roisin

What it works already?????

that would be it going wrong then. wrecking the pix. will fix now.

WOW!!!

You're one up on the Beeb already cos theirs doesn't work on punctuation! Clever tech!

is it working yet?

(Will wait patiently for emoticons to come back)

sorry about wrecking the pix

It is pixiefish!!!

hahaha roisin!!!!!!

And just why do you crave italics, ks?

supercalifragalisticexpialidotious

hello this is kangamummy

how are you?

That's perfectly all right, tech dear. Thank you!

Oh dear! I think I shall have to have a couple of days off whilst we all get used to the novelty.

Thanks for the italics Tech!