To add
italics to your text, put two single quotes before the
italic text, and two single quotes after.
To add
bold, use three single quotes before and after.
And if you use five quotes, you get
bold AND italic both at the same time.
(Way cool! ;-)
Or you can use
some of the second kind, (bold) inside some of the first (italics).
But you can't
swap back and
forth between them without closing the quotes.
Use the Edit Text link to see the source of this page for an example. Go to the
WikiWikiSandbox to try it yourself.
There was a time that to have multiple pieces of italic and bold in a single paragraph,
one had to put hard returns into ones text so the parser understood
what was going on. This limitation was removed with the conversion of wiki to perl5. You may still see pages whose source is formatted as such.
Q: What about adding alternative ways to enter strong and emphasized text? Double and triple single quotes lack the same intuitiveness as the other
TextFormattingRules.
For example:
Wiki Alternative
This is emphasis ==> This is /emphasis/
This is strong ==> This is *strong*
Mozilla Mail does this when rendering plaintext email.
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TimTaylor