• No need to apologise to me--it's you that has the additional work!

    It inserts formatting tags into the text, which can happen if in your text editor you have its own native formatting switched on. This is handy if you're editing web pages, but you're already using an advanced editor to post on the forum. If you used a plain text editor, it'd be easier. Notepad++ is good, for instance (free software).

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