Text Formatting

• Simple Features (bold, italics, etc.)
• Colors
• Text Size
• Miscellaneous (font face, blinking, etc.)

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Simple Features

Tag	Description	Example
\b{Your Text}	Bold Text	Your Text
\i{Your Text}	Italics Text	Your Text
\+{Your Text}	Superscript Text	[Reference]Your Text
\-{Your Text}	Subscript Text	[Reference]Your Text
\fixed{Your Text}	Fixed Width Text	Your Text
\u{Your Text}	Underlined Text	Your Text
\c{Your Text}	Centered Text	Your Text



Examples

Input:		\b{Show me some bold} and \i{italics text}.
Output:		Show me some bold and italics text.

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Colors

Tag	Description	Example
\red{Your Text}	Red Text	Your Text
\orange{Your Text}	Orange Text	Your Text
\yellow{Your Text}	Yellow Text	Your Text
\green{Your Text}	Green Text	Your Text
\cyan{Your Text}	Cyan Text	Your Text
\blue{Your Text}	Blue Text	Your Text
\purple{Your Text}	Purple Text	Your Text
\white{Your Text}	White Text	Your Text
\gray{Your Text}	Gray Text	Your Text
\black{Your Text}	Black Text	Your Text



Example

Input:		\red{Red} and \green{green} are pretty colors.
Output:		Red and green are pretty colors.

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Text Size

Tag	Description	Example
\2{Your Text}	Largest (size +2 text)	Your Text
\1{Your Text}	Large (size +1 text)	Your Text
\0{Your Text}	Average (size +0 text)	Your Text
\-1{Your Text}	Smaller (size -1 text)	Your Text
\-2{Your Text}	Smallest (size -2 text)	Your Text



Example

Input:		\2{You} \1{can} \0{size} \-1{your} \-2{text}.
Output:		You can size your text.

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Miscellaneous

Tag	Description	Example
\strike{Your Text}	Strikethrough	Your Text
\blink{Your Text}	Blinking text	Your Text
\rgb{Hex_code,Your Text}	Color text by hex code	Your Text: aaaa00 color
\font{Font_face,Your Text}*	Font face	Your Text
\indent{Your text}	Indented (blockquoted)	Your text
\quote{Your text}	Quoted	Quote: Your text

* = see note about escaping commas under "Special Characters"

Examples

Input:		\rgb{5aaa7c,This is a strange color}.
Output:		This is a strange color.
Input:		\font{Times New Roman,This is in a different font}.
Output:		This is in a different font.
Input:		\font{Comic Sans MS\,Tahoma,Note the escaped comma here}.
Output:		Note the escaped comma here.

Modern browsers support the display of special characters, such as the "degrees" symbol (°). There are a number of available characters.

Tag	Result		Tag	Result
\ch{->}	®		\ch{<-}	¬
\ch{/ |}	­		\ch{\ /}	¯
\ch{t}	†		\ch{tt}	‡
\ch{dot}	•		\ch{TM}	™
\ch{c}	©		\ch{<<}	«
\ch{R}	®		\ch{deg}	°
\ch{+-}	±		\ch{=/=}	¹
\ch{<>}	¹		\ch{int}	ò
\ch{:)}	J		\ch{:(}	L
\ch{:|}	K		\ch{mu}	µ
\ch{1/2}	½		\ch{>>}	»
\ch{A}	Å		\ch{/}	÷
\ch{nullset}	Ø		\ch{forall}	"
\ch{<=}	£		\ch{>=}	³
\ch{<->}	«		\ch{inf}	¥
\ch{= =}	º		\ch{del}	¶
\ch{DEL}	Ñ		\ch{=>}	Þ
\ch{therefore}	\		\ch{line}
\ch{br}	<BR> (HTML)		\ch{nbsp}	&nbsp; (HTML)

Backslashes, and curly braces have special meanings to the interpreter. If you wish to use these characters as text within a tag, you must "escape" them as with a backslash. Additionally, when you are using a tag that requires 2 or more arguments and you want to include a comma within the arguments (and not have it interpreted as a separator), you must escape it with a backslash. See the examples.

Code	Result
\\	\
\{	{
\}	}
\,	,

Examples

Input:		This program is \ch{c} 1999
Output:		This program is © 1999.
Input:		\b{No need, to escape, these commas} in a tag that takes only one argument.
Output:		No need, to escape, these commas in a tag that takes only one argument.
Input:		\rgb{0000aa,No need, to escape, these commas} in the last field of a tag.
Output:		No need, to escape, these commas in the last field of a tag.
Input:		\font{Times\,Roman\,Arial,You need to escape the first two commas in this case}.
Output:		You need to escape the first two commas in this case.

• Not looking at the preview
The message preview shows your tags in action. If you look at it and your \b{Bold text} isn't bold, you have made a mistake!
• Using / instead of \ to start a tag
• /b{Bold text tag} is wrong
• \b{Bold text tag} is correct
• Using parentheses instead of curly braces
• \b(Bold text tag) is wrong
• \b{Bold text tag} is correct
• Using the wrong case in tags
• \B{Bold text tag} is wrong (\B{ } is not defined)
• \b{Bold text tag} is correct
• Not escaping commas where necessary
• Advanced tags use the comma to separate the various arguments. If you need to use a comma and not have it treated as a delimiter, you must escape the comma.
• See the discussion under "Special Characters" for further explanation and many examples.
• Putting spaces where they do not belong
• \ b{Bold text tag} is wrong (space between \ and b).
• \b {Bold text tag} is wrong (space between b and {).
• \b{Bold text tag} is correct.