Does Ink support text formatting, e.g. bold/italics?

[hola-estif]

Hi there,

Does Ink support text formatting like bold and italics? There are places where I want to emphasise certain words in the dialogue but I don't want to use caps. I tried using markdown but that doesn't seem to work. Couldn't find it in the documentation either - apologies if I've missed this guidance though.

Side note: I started writing with Ink 6 months ago and I'm absolutely loving it. Thank you for creating such an awesome tool and making it open source.

Many thanks in advance,
Steve

[Selsynn]

Ink is mostly about the game logic and what text to change. How you display it is up to yourself, because it will be technology dependant.
If you are doing a webgame with the inkjs framework. I do believe you can use HTML markup.

For example

<strong>Once</strong> <em>upon</em> <b>a</b> time...

 * There were two choices.
 * There were four lines of content.

- They lived happily ever after.
    -> END

Gives that result

So it seems the b for bold tag does not reflect as in Inky.
but you can use Em for emphasis (italic) and strong for more bold font.

If you have whole paragraph with that style, I would advise to use the class system. (like it's explained in the Custom CSS classes here https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/web-tutorial/ )

Note: everything is about the HTML export of the story. Not any other export where you would have to search how to markup your text with the technology you use.

[hola-estif]

Thanks for the comprehensive answer! Exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much.