Ned complained of being unable to italicize in his comments. I have set up Movable Type to respect HTML tags wherever it finds them in comments, but you must know how to put the HTML in.

To make something bold, put the bold tag before it: <b> (b is for bold). Then put another bold tag after it, with a slash before the b to tell the browser that it's the end of the item that should be bolded: </b>. Thus, if I wanted to bold a word, it would look like this: <b>word</b>. The result looks like this: word. Do the same for italicizing, except replace b with i (for italic). <i>The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain</i> yields: The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. Underlining is u.

To make something a blockquote (that is, to offset a paragraph by about half an inch), surround the text you want with a <blockquote> tag in the same way you would surround text you wanted italicized with an <i> tag. And don't forget the slash at the end, or else the rest of your comment will be italicized (the browser won't know where to stop italicizing).

I hope this was helpful, as Movable Type does not have convenient tag buttons like other software.