I use the second from, with <.p>, extensively in adv3Lite. It should work. The only reason I can think of for why it might not work is if you’re using some code that interferes with the output transcript. An extension? Something you wrote yourself?
Also, just to be clear, is this in adv3 or adv3Lite?
I’m running Gargoyle as an interpreter, because I’m on Linux. The interpreter is losing all of the formatting tags, and it seems to work on Windows.
Well now I know.
You should probably report this to Ben Cressey, who I believe maintains Gargoyle. They have a mailing list on google groups (groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/garglk-dev).
Thanks, on both accounts. I’ll look into both submitting the bug report and the interpreter. I did some searching through the known issues, but didn’t see this particular one mentioned.