The following rich formatting tags are available:

Bold

You can make text appear in bold by surrounding the text with the following codes: [B]...[/B].

So to make ‘This text is bold’ appear in bold you would enter:

[B]This text is bold[/B]

Italics

You can make text appear in italics by surrounding the text with the following codes: [I]...[/I].

So to make ‘This text is italics’ appear in italics you would enter:

[I]This text is italics[/I]

Quoting text

You can separate quoted text from normal body text with the following codes: [QUOTE]...[/QUOTE].

So entering: ‘This is how the normal body text appears.[QUOTE]This is how the quoted text appears.[/QUOTE]’ results in:

This is how the normal body text appears.

This is how the quoted text appears.

Email links

You can turn an internet email address into a hyperlink by enclosing it in the [EMAIL]...[/EMAIL] tags.

To turn ‘cuz@richardhell.com.com’ into a clickable link like cuz@richardhell.com you would enter:

[EMAIL]cuz@richardhell.com[/EMAIL]

URL links

You can turn an internet URL into a hyperlink by enclosing it in the [URL]...[/URL] tags.

To turn ‘www.richardhell.com’ into a clickable link like www.richardhell.com you would enter:

[URL]www.richardhell.com[/URL]

Note that the part of the URL that specifies the protocol (the bit that starts ‘http://’) is optional and will be inserted automatically if it isn’t specified.

Inserting images

You can insert an image into your text if that image is stored on an internet-visible web server. You do this by enclosing the URL of the image in the [IMG]...[/IMG] tags.

To embed the image ‘http://www.richardhell.com/images/music.gif’ into your text like
  you would enter:

[IMG]www.richardhell.com/images/music.gif[/IMG]

Note that the part of the URL that specifies the protocol (the bit that starts ‘http://’) is optional and will be inserted automatically if it isn’t specified.

Preformatted text

You can insert preformatted text by enclosing it in the [PRE]...[/PRE] tags. This can be useful for inserting program code where the formatting needs to be preserved. For example:

[PRE]
Public Sub savePosting_disc
	Dim errorString
	if validatePost_disc (errorString) then
		saveMessageRecord_disc
	end if
End Sub
[/PRE]

Line breaks

Line breaks are automatically inserted for each carriage return, and paragraph breaks are inserted for two adjacent carriage returns. In addition, the [BR] tag can be used to insert a line break at a specific point. No [/BR] tag is required, but it is ignored if encountered.