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

[murraymints]

¬¬{{[[[ah got it ..i think]

[murraymints]

no I haven't...[ have I]

[murraymints]

[no]

[murraymints]

maybe

[murraymints]

eureka !!!!

[AB Editor]

[i]:)[i]

[bibblebub]

ha ha

[AB Editor]

:)

It seems that the brackets aren't escaping.

[boxtops]

It seems that the brackets aren't escaping.

Seems your magnetic personality is getting in the way Ed ;-)

[gen2]

Where have all the other answers gone to, room 101?
Do you mean these AOG?
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1128030.html

[gen2]

What I typed:
To [í]emphasise[í] or not to [í] emphasise [í] (in italics) - [í]that is the question.[í]

but with a proper lower-case 'i'

and this is what I get :-((

To emphasise[i or not to [i] emphasise [i] (in italics) - [i]that is the question.]

[Gromit]

The implimentation of this seems very hit and miss.

People on the news are already abandoning it because it does not worl as advertised.

[vivandorron]

Gromit....You have said it does not worl as advertised.[i However it does [i] Work.] :-)

Ron.

[vivandorron]

Sorry Gromit... I now realise what you meant.

Ron.

[Old_Geezer]

Without a preview facility it may prove more annoying and frustrating than it is worth. Uncorrectable typos are bad enough.

[vivandorron]

A good point O_G.

I have had success and failure with the 'text italics'. Consequently, I am now wondering if, without a preview facility being added to AB, the use of [i] is a bit messy. Perhaps it would be simpler to have a single left sloping oblique (slash) at the beginning and end of text which is being italicised.
e.g......\Example\

Unless I am wrong, the left sloping oblique is very rarely used and should not interfere with normal straightforward typing into AB.

Ron

[ChuckFickens]

"Perhaps it would be simpler to have a single left sloping oblique (slash) at the beginning and end of text which is being italicised.
e.g......\Example\ "

Well that would bugger me (and everyone else in the tech sections) up when we wanted to post a directory path such as c:\windows\system32

[vivandorron]

Thanks Chuck.....Point taken....Forget what I have suggested..

Nevertheless there must be an easier way to italicise.

Ron.

[ChuckFickens]

I'm sure there's a good reason why the standard HTML tag for italics wasn't used, which is <i> to open and </i> to close.

[rowanwitch]

its all a bit of a faff. just imagine the next bit is in italics or it might not be