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.

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

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

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.

does it work

no

I like zebra's suggestion, tech!

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

But then it would probably happen by accident, wwb - 2 random *'s would bold everything in between....

Yes, that's true ... didn't think that one out very well, did I

Great! By the way I agree that WordPerfect was far superior to Word. Word is so clunky sometimes.

Can't believe I've met some people who agree that WordPerfect was better than Word, or at that people who even care! I liked the reveal codes feature, made sorting out the format of a document far more straight-forward.

I /cannot/ do /it/

OK, I read it properly now, sorry

I'm another one who thinks WordPerfect was the dog's whatsits - I loved it, and I'd still have it over Word any day.

Hello all,
Have turned italics back on, but using caret () instead of slash (/). So hello without the spaces gives hello^. I've updated the guide on the right to reflect this..... sorry this has been such an epic.

Regards,
Tech

test test test

well almost--- what did i do wrong

testagain

test

well don't know what i did but it works.

thnaks tech

duh - no spaces
again

Thanks, tech!

Do you think there might be an alternative to _ for doing underlining as well? I have had a few links this week where the URL I wanted to use included some underlines and they got converted into something else - possibly - so the link didn't work, and then when I tried just giving the URL everything got underlined...

Hi JanH,

I'm just changing the way links are handled so that we take them out of the text before doing any fancy schmancy stuff with bold etc. Then put them back in at the end. So it should all settle down by Monday.... as vic and bob used to say, I didn't think it through, did i.

My DH works in computers and he hates changes, because something you hadn't considered always happens - and if it's two things you hadn't considered you are well buggered!

The fact that bits of mumsnet sometimes go wonky is part of its considerable charm

Hesitate to say this, but it should all work now. I know JanH. In the real world you do "regression tests" to make sure anything new hasn't broken anything old. We don't have that ability though (resources innit), so i just have to try think of what might go wrong. oh woe is me.

Right,
this is a link to page with underscores and slashes galore.boldstill works as does the original italics and the new version and underline. Multiple links in the same message should be OK too. The missing spaces etc are deliberate by the way....

YEEEEEAHHHHHHH!!!