Allow Italics Text

[Thetaris]

Ooooohhhh yeah!

-Bad-. I'm sick of having to use -dashes- every time I want to -express my opinion in a more serious voice-.

Even a little button to put in italics would be great, I know the issue with having HTML let lose in the chat.

Edited for thread title. -rklenseth

[WojD]

Maybe another solution:

replace * italic * with

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<i> italic </i>

-> italic

and

replace ^ bold ^ with

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<b> bold </b>

-> bold

This will be simple enaugh for all, not so dificult to program and really help when you want to say something important...

In same time we should also implement solution for these suggestions:
http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=132 (accepted)

http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5328

[Jos Elkink]

But how can people talk in italics or bold?

[Sho]

Emotes (e.g. "*shouting* Go away!") are less ambiguous than bold or italics.

[Okud]

Italics won't always show in turn reports. Not all email clients are set to display html code.
Dashes will...

Edit from the spelling police: it's spelled "definitely"

[WojD]

Well - Jos, Sho, Okud - your arguments are strong... People can't emote in bold or italic...



But says to YOU and gives to you messages should be bolded or highlighted.

In polish interface we have this bolded - and you are sure you don't miss any imprtant message. My char in english zone very often 'don't hear' what people talk directly to him

EDIT: For email clients we can change it back to ** and ^^ or --

[Sho]

That's bolding as an automated part of the interface, not bolding as a manually controlled way of emphasizing speech.

[Crosshair]

I think a bigger talk box would go hand in hand with this actually.

[Chris Johnson]

That's bolding as an automated part of the interface, not bolding as a manually controlled way of emphasizing speech.

I think a bigger talk box would go hand in hand with this actually.

Both of which have already been accepted already

[rklenseth]

HTML was disabled because of abuse by other players.

[funetik]

I think Theataris meant italics to add emphasis to a word. Not for actions/*he does this*.

e.g. I really don't think you should do that.

edit -

I should re-read things when I'm tired

Anyway. I'd prefer italics to emoting it..

*shouting* doesn't really do it for me. Depends on the context, I suppose.