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Actually, guys, for any future correspondence with the press, we’d prefer you to leave this website out of it, please. It is very easy for publicity to backfire, which is why all the foundation’s contacts with […]

Very strange with the underlining. However, italics and bold can still be used for emphasis, and if anyone particularly wants to underline something, you can always email us after you’ve posted your comment and […]

That’s strange, Cairsley – it’s working for us (see above). Bear in mind that it won’t show as underlined until after (see what we did there? 🙂 ) you’ve posted your comment. If you want to underline a word b […]

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Cairsley Yes, it’s simply “u” before the text and “/u” after it. As before, in both cases it’s typed without the quotation marks and inside angled brackets. We’ll edit our earlier comment to include it.

Some formatting tips in the absence of the formatting bar:
 You need to put the formatting command both immediately before and immediately after the text to which it applies. The command immediately after the t […]

Selection of recent comments from last month’s open discussion, copied here to aid the flow. You can still respond to any comments from last month’s discussion that we haven’t copied across, of course, but in all […]

Hi everyone, thanks again for your lively contributions to the September discussions. If you’d like to continue any of those, or start new ones, please do that here.

 As ever, comments about books or the clima […]

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THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SEPTEMBER DISCUSSION. THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY FURTHER COMMENTS HERE, BUT YOU ARE WELCOME TO CONTINUE THE DISCUSS […]

Joe M Glad that’s working for you now. Hopefully you got our reply to your email about this a couple of weeks ago, advising you that the problem had so far cleared itself if users just refreshed the page a few […]

No worries, Strato – all sorted now!

Thanks for that, Laurie. It’s appreciated.

Always good to see you posting, Laurie, even if it’s to disagree with us! There is, of course, no problem at all with asking for sources or citations, or probing people’s ideas in all sorts of other ways. But […]

Moderator message Guys, this is all getting rather out of hand. This is a site for thoughtful and constructive discussion. Nemo (originally posting as Geo Wolfe) presented his thoughts on a subject of […]

Zeuglodon Beta Mods, you might like to know about this in case it’s affecting anyone else too. Absolutely. Thanks for that, and for your patience in finding a workaround. A couple of your broken-down c […]

offg, we’ve moved your comment across to the Book Club for you The mods

Some formatting tips in the absence of the formatting bar: You need to put the formatting command both immediately before and immediately after the text to which it applies. The command immediately after the text […]

Selection of recent comments from last month’s open discussion, copied here to aid the flow. You can still respond to any comments from last month’s discussion that we haven’t copied across, of course, but in all […]

Hi everyone, thanks again for all your contributions to the August open discussion. If you’d like to continue any of those, or start new ones, please do that here.

 As ever, comments about books or the clima […]