Subject: Re: Not a missing board...
If I understand you correctly, we can already do this. Using HTML is how I italicized part of your post.
Do you mean the use of some specific html-like tags, like < i > text < / i > (omitting the spaces)?
Yes, a few of those formatting tags work, but general html code does not. I'm thinking of things like:
<html> 10<sup>1000000</sup> or 10<sup>10<sup>6</sup></sup> </html>
This is just a simple example using nested <sup> (superscript) tags, but there are perhaps hundreds of allowed html tags that browsers are responsible for rendering.
To implement this "easily" here, you'd want to punt the rendering to the browser instead of trying to handle each of the hundreds of html tags in additional custom code. Not sure how practical that would be for Manlobbi to do here. Hopefully he weighs in!