“I think we would all be better able to follow your assertions”
You mean my facts. I do not most assertions. As for italics, actually, it doesn’t work for me. It just turns my posts into one giant text-block. No spacing. Just paragraphs all joined together. Same thing happens if I include any kind of weird text, such as stuff in Greek or Hebrew which wasn’t romanized. I suspect it’s the browser. One of these days I’ll fix it.
OK, then. Since you insist on iconoclastic presentation that confuses the reader with lines that look just like the lines FR uses to separate one post from another, and comment typosgraphy that looks just like reply typography, hope you’ll be happy with low readership.
No, that is your lack of HTML skills, which other freepers take the time to learn and can easily be addressed as noted above. Lack of paragraphs is due to not putting the html paragraph indicator in place, for one thing.