Adding italics to The AnswerBank

[AB Editor]

You can now make lines of text italic on The AnswerBank.

Great for:

1. Emphasis
2. Quoting other users

It's dead easy.

Just add [ i ] without the spaces to both ends of the text you wish to italicise.

A bit like this:

Watch this video for more an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_Xvim1ksI

[rowanwitch]

The power of imagination....

[vivandorron]

rowanwitch.....You will already know that my imagination is prone to running riot[i.

I am bearing in mind everything that Chuck is saying and still engaging my quickly aging mind on the issue concerned. I dread the day (if it hasn't already arrived) when I am posting into AB nothing but stupidity.

Believing that I am still [i]compos mentis,[i] I am now wondering about other keyboard keys being used at the start and finish of [i]italicised words].....such as...;this;...or `this`...or...#this#.

There's bound to be a snag somewhere.

Ron.

[jno]

Ron, I think you have to leave spaces before and after the words you want to italicise .

[Mamyalynne]

compos mentis

[Frank97]

just testing

[vivandorron]

There's bound to be a snag somewhere

There certainly is with the present format, which, so far as I can make out, is very unreliable.

Ron.

[vivandorron]

jno.... You are correct about having to leave spaces.

Reference to my posting above yours..is evidence that I have done that.

How do you account for the [i]'s remaining in place, in the second paragraph.?

Ron.

[Mamyalynne]

I do not leave spaces Ron, certain punctuation marks and the placing of them seems to negate the process.

[Lie-in King]

Hi Ron - I think it might have been the comma that did it - some punctuation & special characters aren't recognised

[Nibble]

There certainly is with the present format, which, so far as I can make out, is very unreliable.

Not from this end Ron, can you try that again!!

[jno]

Ron, it seems as if when something goes wrong with one set of italics in a post they all go wrong.

I'm not sure if you can get two [i in the same [i] post ] or not, let's see.

[jno]

no, that didn't work, did it.

[Nibble]

to post[i or not to [i]post[i] that is the question,
whether 'tis nobler to [i]post] & suffer the slings of fools with anonymity...


etc

With apologies to W. Shakespaere..

[jno]

same result as me, Nibble. Something to keep the techies busy over the weekend.

[AB Editor]

I'll revisit this on Monday.

[Mick-Talbot]

*()(*&^%$£"+_)(*&^%$7890-==765_ Fluffing german keyboard , I can.t even find the square bracket

[ummmm]

Mick...is next to the P

[jno]

well, you don't want italics, then, Mick, you want teutonics.

[Frank97]

Is this it Mick?
http://en.wikipedia.o...i/File:KB_Germany.svg
Looks like you need to hold ALT GR the press 8 or 9.

[Gromit]

Hit [i and [i] Miss ]

(bet that doesn't work)