The first thing you do is to log feedback, pointing out that you are one of thousands of thousands of users who have problems with this, because Apple does not provide proper feedback in the user interface. Only some fonts contain italic (or oblique) typefaces. A program like MS Word tries to italicize those fonts anyhow, and the result is often not that pretty: In the picture from Microsoft Word 2004 above, the font Baskerville has an italic typeface. The font Baskerville Old Face does not.

Precede italicized text with \i and bold text with \b. To switch back to plain text, use \p. For example: \bBold \iItalics \pPlain (Thanks: Dan Daranciang)

Answer: Do NOT use special characters -- they don't always convert. As for italics and bold, preferably not, as the librarians copy *just* the text into the template file. If you want something to show up as special, use astericks or all caps. We don't have the time to go through and change the text to italics for you. (Again, see the submission directions on the site info page.)

Yes, there are certain tags that emulate HTML that you can use. For a detailed listing and samples on how to use them click here

You just surround the word or words you want to link or make bold or italics with the commands listed above! When you preview your article make sure everything works properly.

Most of the fonts I downloaded from various sites on the web. The rest came with programs or operating systems I've bought. A few have been sent to me by people who have invented scripts.

Text formatting is done by special 'BBCode'. For more information , see the guide which can be accessed near the bottom of the page while posting your reply/topic.

The messaging system allows a limited number of html tags to help you format and customize your messages. You can use the following tags <B>Bold</B> <I>Italic</I> <U>Underline</U>.

This is because the function is an Internet Explorer (IE) command (not Windows) and therefore, is very basic. As far as I know, the button only works in IE and no other browser. Other public domain versions and languages will become available when EasiSlides users send them to me for publication

When editing text within the BizInfo Site Wizard you will see the same familiar toolbar that today's popular word processors have. You can bold, italicize, underline, change color, and more with an easy to use toolbar.

Experience has taught me to recommend you not to use formatting to produce italics, either when sending your profile to me, or posting to the list. Similarly, I would prefer you not to use circumflex to indicate long (doubled) vowels in Japanese. I know, it seems a shame when these tools are available in some mail software, but trust me on this one... Book titles can be indicated by underspace (_title_), or not marked at all.

Only in very rare situations we will find users that have a "calibrated" rendering device that shows fixed font sizes correct. This tells us that we can never know the real size of a font when it's rendered on the user end. Other people may find your choice of font size uncomfortable. A surprisingly large number of people have vision problems and require larger text than the average.

Some programs, such as the PC version of Macromedia Flash, Fireworks etc., will not show Bold variants of fonts in font menus. These variants can, however, be accessed if Bold style button is selected. Note that, if you select the Bold style button for a Bold variant of a font in the Macintosh version of Flash, the already Bold font variant will be artificially emboldened with ugly results.

Open a new e-mail message, go to the View menu and select HTML. Use the following bar which should look familiar to you.

No. They can only be used as is. No bold or italic, however you may change the kerning and line spacing values.

Yes, however for security reasons it is not possible to use the normal HTML text formatting codes in your description. Instead, you must use the syntax below: Yes. You can set up a "Wanted" advert which you can configure to send you an email message whenever a property advert fitting your requirements is placed on our system. The most likely explanation is that you have tried to submit an image with your advert that is too large. We recommend using our software utility FivePounds.