What Max has given us is the flexibility to present our posts almost any way we feel they should look. This lets us give each other links to other information on the Net, highlight text and lyrics so chord references are easy to understand, construct simple tablature for sharing technique and whole lot more. This power and flexibility comes at a price and that is some responsibility dealing with the markup tags. I think the tradeoff is a good one but then I'm a computer guy.

I use a free editor—EMACS is my choice but there are many simpler ones—whenever I'm doing anything complicated like tablature or lyrics. The editors let me simply type things the way I want them to look. I can simply highlight text like you would in a word processor and pick bold or emphasized from a tool bar. The editor plugs in the beginning and ending tags so all I have to do is copy it and paste it into the Mudcat thread window.

Maybe I'll look for free and easy HTML editors and post links back here.

And if anyone wants to post lyrics but it's too much trouble, you can also email them to me and I'll typeset them for you. I'd really hate to see us lose a song.

      - Mark