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.

just have to try this

cool

WOW it worked

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How'd you manage that coppertop? can you remember?

Tech - If you use the old grin emoticon it disappears but lets you post a blank message.

Ah yes, I can see why. Thanks, will fix.....

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

/Does it work for more than one word?/

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

nope

Oooh! Yes please, JanH.

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.

Really cool!

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

dogscatsfish are great

makes interesting lists

test

mm i think there is a problem with links now

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

Why can't I make /italics/ work?

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

hello hello /hello/

/italics/ didn't work for me either

You can't get italics either then, vict?

Tech? What's happened to our italics?

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

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