Can you put these lines into a comment for whatever language you are using? 
Alternately, you could code the page as HTML and tag that text 
appropriately.

On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 7:11:53 PM UTC-7, Greg Shenaut wrote:
>
> The ⌘T Font dialog in BBEdit contains several character modifiers, of 
> which one is strike-out font. I get that this would only be something that 
> would affect what you see on the screen, because a plain text editor 
> obviously can't do things like that in the file itself. But I can imagine 
> various ways to implement display-only strike-out, at least theoretically.
>
> Anyway, I had some lines I had entered but then realized that they weren't 
> correct but might be useful later, so I fired up the Font dialog, selected 
> the offending text, and clicked on “Single” in the strike-out menu.
>
> Something happened. The font changed in the whole display, not just in the 
> selected portion. It changed to some other font, non-strike out and 
> proportional font (I usually use Menlo). If I then click on “None” (or 
> anything else) in the strike-out menu, nothing further happens; if I select 
> Menlo, then it goes back to what it was. It works exactly the same for the 
> other menus (underline, color), no matter what you click on in any of those 
> menus, even “None”.
>
> It seems to me that BBEdit should either conceal those menus in the Font 
> dialog if it doesn't support those functions, or, if the menus must be 
> retained, nothing should happen if you select something in them. If the 
> menus are there, then people are going to try to use them, and if something 
> happens, they are going to keep fiddling with it to see if they can make it 
> work. Which in this case turns out to be a complete waste of time.
>
> Unless, of course, I'm missing something.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
>

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