From above - (how does one put it in italics??)

Basic HTML is a whole bunch quicker and easier to learn that any musical instrument, but I suspect that's probably also partly a mind-for-that-sort-of-thing thing.

1. Type, or copy & paste, the text you want to italicise.
2. Where you want the italics to start type <i> into the message editor
3. Where you want the italics to end type </i> into the editor
4. Preview to make sure you've done it right
5. Bob's your Uncle.

Replace i with u for underline, b for bold, and loads more HTML fun is yours for the Googling.

Two hundred message angry debate about

• whether you should teach total beginners to insert tags as they go or to insert them later,
• which is the hardest HTML tag to do by hand, and
• whether Show Of Hands are more HTML standards-compliant than Bellowhead,

starts in 5 ... 4 .... 3 ....