Steve, to demonstrate that I am not criticizing you, I'll comment your writing Also, if I copy and paste something in italics from someone else's post in order to quote them, it comes out not in italics any more!

If you want to reproduce the styles of the original post, right-click on the Mudcat page and select "Source code" (or similar). A window will open from which you can dopy the passage including all the "tags" (pieces of HTML syntax as opposed to genuine text).

The trick works with any web page. You can even design your messages in your favourite word processing software completely, "Save as ... HTML" and proceed analogously. Be sure not to post any unwanted "tags".