Joybell, this is a very late answer to your question, but the
way to make italics is to precede the to-be-italicized text
with the letter i, enclosed in pointy angle brackets, and follow
the text with a slash and the i in the pointy brackets.

Because doing it correctly on my screen would make those instructions
disappear, just for illustration I will use the open and close
parenthetical curves here. "(i)ITALICS(/I)" You would use the pointy angles instead.

To make BOLD text, you use the letter B within the brackets,
rather than "i".

To make underlined text, use "u".

There are a number of similar tricks for other effects.

Dave Oesterreich