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To: Kevmo

Not true. I've mentioned it, and have seen others mention it.

Is perhaps italicizing what you could be quoting of another, and replying to, by using an opening command "<" with a letter i sandwiched between the opening bracket and a closing bracket ">" too much to ask? use the brackets and and the letter, but without quotation marks...

Then, turn the italicizing off with the same exact two angle brackets close on either side of "/i".

A backslash coupled with whatever command preceded, such as the letter b for bold text, or such as

is not that difficult.

The method you use is confusing to readers, and irritating in itself, due to the poor formatting.

Italicizing is easy, and beats quotation marks, or ***kind of thing*** with no paragraph breaks...

Making paragraph breaks with angle-brackets enclosing the letter p, can be helpful.

or not, is a piece of cake.

Ok, I'm lying. It's a few

*** crap ***
WITH NO PARAGRAPH BREAKS

making it a puzzle as to who is saying what, has got to go

15 years...? Learn how to format correctly. Maggot

287 posted on 03/03/2014 5:54:19 PM PST by BlueDragon (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.Proverbs 29:18)
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To: BlueDragon
15 years...? Learn how to format correctly.

I saw no reason to do so.

In reality, all that stuff you wrote about italics was WHY I chose not to, because back in the day we had tons of problems with italics and we used to say: Close your Italians!

I knew it was a matter of coding and some software dude getting around to doing it.

Eventually, someone will tell me that I should have learned how to do colored text as well. I'll have to wait for the update.

293 posted on 03/03/2014 8:31:32 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: BlueDragon
too much to ask?

Yes. It was.

Not true. I've mentioned it, and have seen others mention it.

You didn't say, "Your formatting sucks". You just commented on it, and my response has not varied. I even recall that someone agreed with me and posted to JimRob that they would donate a bunch of extra money to FR if he'd just upgrade that capability.

294 posted on 03/03/2014 8:37:02 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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