Report - Formatting text IN text items

Question

I'm trying to create a report with (at the end of the report) a text field extracted from the (Oracle) database.
A user creates the value of the field, with a sort of HTML formatting on the text (to make text in BOLD is used <B> and </B>, for ITALIC <I> and </I> and to UNDERLINE...).
If I generate the report in HTML format everything is OK, but in PDF format I've got the tags written with the text.
This mean that instead of having:
"Hello World"
I've got
"Hello <B>World</B>"
Is there a way to let Oracle Report display a text item with some words in BOLD (ITALIC, etc) and some others not?
I've tryed the "Contains HTML Tag" without any result, I'm currently using 6i, but I can switch to 9i.
Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Stephen Schulte2 wrote:
Sagesse wrote:
To quote text, put "> " (without quotes) in front of the text you want indented.
OK I used the ' " ' to put your message into a box at the start of mine, but I don't seem to be able to use the ">" to "indent" my text... For example-- the following is not indented: >So now I am putting this text here in quotes, let's see via PREVIEW.
No, that doesn't seem to do anything...
Steve
You have to put the > character at the beginning of a line.
Alternatively, you can use this HTML to set off text as a blockquote without the background:
<blockquote style="margin-left: 50px;">Quoted text goes here</blockquote>
Which will render your text like this:
Quoted text goes here
You can add your own background color like this:
<blockquote style="background:lightblue; border:1px solid black; padding:3px; margin-left: 50px;">Quoted text goes here</blockquote>
Where 'lightblue' can be replaced with any CSS or HTML color name.
This will render your text like this:
Quoted text goes here