[FM Discuss] HTML formatting issue with ReadingandSugar

[adam]

ah...ok. interesting. fm still recognises wiki markup since we are using
a wiki as the backend.

try using the char code :
*

(from http://cdli.ucla.edu/tools/htmlchar.html)

in the source view.

adam




On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:42 -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> I'm having an interesting problem writing a chapter about Plain Text
> files.  I want to write the following sentence:
> 
> "By convention a word is considered to be italicized if it has
> asterisks before and after it, like *this*. A word is considered
> underlined if it has underline characters before and after, like
> _this_."
> 
> The HTML is rendered like this:
> 
> "By convention a word is considered to be italicized if it has
> asterisks before and after it, like <strong>this</strong>.  A
> word is considered underlined if it has underline characters before
> and after, like <em>this</em>."
> 
> If I use the HTML view of the editor I do NOT see the second version.
> I see exactly what I wrote in the first version.  So how do I make the
> page come out with asterisks and underlines?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Simmons
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