That's part of the forum software coding, John.

This software uses the "UBB" Coding standard.

brackets with an "i" inside invoke Italics.

Entering bracket either side of "/i" turns Italics off at that point, if there isn't the /i anywhere, then it is Italics from there on out.

"b" does much the same thing, only that invokes Bold type, and so on.

Italics

Bold

Bold Italics

There are just a few other commands as well.

There's a key somewhere in the Forum Help.


--Mac