Italics in posted material

by Timothy Kaplan
31st August 2014

I recently made an attempt to post an excerpt here that was rife with italics (internal dialog). The system didn't pick up the italics. I know that Microsoft word has a few issues with cut and paste into web forms, and I have tried using "Textpad" and find it extremely cumbersome. What are some of your favorite text editor programs? Any suggestions?

The change I made here also dropped my posted story so forgive me if I re-post.

Thanks all!

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Nope. Neither worked... :(

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I don't think it has to do with Microsoft; all italicised text copied from my Mac (Pages 09, Scrivener for Mac, etc.) appears as standard text. Maybe Admin can give us an answer?

Unless the following basic HTML works?

test 1

test 2

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I wrote something in Word yesterday and cut and pasted some lines for repeating further down the same page. The italics didn't appear there either. I wonder if it's a Microsoft issue?

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