I've been digging around and think I see what you are talking about. I see using visible codes for formatting such as ^PBbold^PB. I agree this allows for more

I've been digging around and think I see what you are talking about. I see using visible codes for formatting such as ^PBbold^PB. I agree this allows for more precise text input in relation to formatting. For similar reasons that Markdown is also good for that. But I don't think it addresses my second goal, which is to have clean looking text without formatting characters. I'll keep digging around, but if there is something specific about Wordstar that you think my app could benefit from let me know.