Format text for Text and Labels. Italics and boldface

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I would like somekind of simple markup language for the labels.

i have a list of data that i show in the labels which i was different colors 
and to bold some portions of the text.

something simple like <b>text</b> for bold <red>text</red> for color. Or what 
ever you feel is best.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by step...@mymessage.us on 21 Oct 2010 at 4:48

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Original comment by ma...@google.com on 28 Oct 2010 at 8:53

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really need this, the markup of the properties box is not enough when you want 
different markup inside one label

Original comment by ewoudcr...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2010 at 6:32

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Almost entered a new Feature request for this as it's hard to find

Format Text
Format Label
Bold italics underline

Original comment by Ed.Joybe...@gmail.com on 25 Dec 2010 at 11:39

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Original comment by halabel...@google.com on 2 Jan 2011 at 5:53

• Changed title: Format text for Text and Labels. Italics and boldface

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Issue 1040 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by halabel...@google.com on 2 Jan 2011 at 5:53

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Dear App Inventor Owners - I agree with the general intent of the posts above 
and, more specifically, using an HTML analogy, I suggest that we definitely 
need to be able to mark-up the text in a given label using tags like the p-tag, 
the br-tag, the table-tag, the td-tag, the tr-tag, the hr-tag, the strong-tag, 
and perhaps a few others. HTH. Thank you. - Mark Kamoski

Original comment by mkamo...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2011 at 4:10

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I think that not only should this formatting code option be available to 
labels, but also to any text attribute in the blocks editor. I have several 
generator apps that require formatting of text segments Such as tab and italics 
formatting options.

Original comment by simera...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2011 at 6:05

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This would be great. Storing/Reading blocks of text to/from tinydb (and tiny 
webdb) is great, but without the ability to store some level of formatting (or 
a way to parse it into a formatted form after retrieving it), it loses a LOT of 
potential usefulness.

Original comment by brad.lec...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2011 at 12:16

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I am playing with a small app that shows my students a list of the tasks they 
need to complete.  The only way I can do this is by entering each in separate 
labels, so the equivalent of <p>text</p> would be rather useful.  Thanks :-)

Original comment by lord.wi...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2012 at 3:09

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Just checking if this issue/request will be addressed in the near future? I 
think that this is a feature that is needed. This should be a fairly simple fix.

BTW - Thanks for the work that you guys are doing on this software.

Original comment by isimo...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2012 at 4:11

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Any word with regards to solving this issue?

Original comment by isimo...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2012 at 10:22

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AFAIK, only "\n" will place text in new line (therefore it can be used instead 
of <p>); no other escape sequence or HTML markup is known to work. 

Original comment by radoslav...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2012 at 5:33

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Let me clarify: If the text is something like: "First\nSecond\nThird line", the 
output will be: 

First
Second
Third line

Original comment by radoslav...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2012 at 5:34

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I really need this... i.e. \sb to start bold \eb to end... \si to start italic 
\ei to stop... and so on. 
Thanks!

Original comment by simmy.sh...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2013 at 9:56