@Tora-Kokoro if we add slashes, it would be added on compatible devices as well, because you're inserting text to the string, so using slashes would add it to everything.
I mean, we could just add it in straight, and DSi users would be the only ones who would not see the italics. Kinda a wacky thing to do, but it's all in the name of modernization
Highlight, sure. Might look gnarly, but whatever you say
If we're going to do lists, might as well do what HTML does. [ul] for unordered lists (bulleted lists), [ol] for ordered lists (1. or a. or A. or any other type), and [li] for elements within the list. Oh, and make the lists stylable for types.
@banjo2 what if it used forward slashes in place for uncompatible devices? Something like /this/ that would indicate the emphasized text.
Idk, listing something out in bios or group bios.
Just a line break on things like: thisisaverylongstringofwordsthatwillgooffthepage, but so it won't go off the page. Plus, the line break was Gui's idea, and I think it would be helpful.
Yeah, but if it's used, they would have no idea and may not pick up on the emphasis that the person using it is trying to communicate. I always just use asterisks for that *specific* type of emphasis, especially because of markdown.
Curly brackets, maybe? Although I'm not sure a list BBCode would be useful in the first place, could you give examples?
It sounds like we're thinking of two different things. The way you've written it sounds like you're asking for forced text wrapping (continuing the text on the next line instead of staying on the current line until the word is complete).
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