When you say “proper strings” you don’t actually explain what that is Please try and provide details with your questions, and if you have given it a try, which I’m sure that you must have, perhaps share what you have so people can steer you in the right direction with what you had. It can help in learning some of the principles and may help others with their learning.
Here’s a version of that previous shortcut which I’ve modified to show a few different ways of wrapping some text strings around them, including none (as before), Markdown, and HTML as some examples.