{italic} is specifically about making document elements italic (or removing this font attribute). For questions about {italic-correction}, use the tag of the same name. For general questions about formatting document elements, use {formatting} instead.
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What is the difference between italics and slanted text?
As I understand, LaTeX supports both via \textit and \textsl respectively, but what is the difference between the two?
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Style same type of element throughout document
I am new to Latex and am wondering if there exists anything like a class in HTML. I have been writing a bunch of documents lately and all my \items have needed to be italized, is there some way to ...
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Can I get full justification for italic text?
In the TeXbook, Knuth notes that italics can lead to problems with justification:
EXERCISE 14.16
When an entire paragraph is typeset in italic or slanted type, it sometimes appears to be offset ...
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Non-italic quote in the quote environment
Any idea how to produce a quote in the quote environment that's not italicized (using LyX)? I'm trying to create a presentation in beamer and can't seem to figure it out.
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Bold italic math with unicode-math
How can I get the output I get without unicode-math using unicode-math, preferably (not necessarily) using the same code (\boldmath)? I would like the solution to work with at least the XITS and Latin ...
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How can I fix a problem where italics prevent line breaking when using microtype?
I wish to use protrusion and expansion from microtype as I like the look you get with them. I use amsthm and typeset theorems in italic as usual (with \theoremstyle{plain}). With microtype enabled, ...
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Overriding `\bfseries` and `\itshape` to do special things for certain families
My problem arises from trying to work around the issue described in question 26276: I want to use SizeFeatures to explicitly select another family for small sizes, but this causes bold / italic / etc. ...
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Using bold/italic text inside listings?
How can I use bold text inside a code listing? I wanted to make some parts of the code bold.
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Is there a bold italic \sigma and a sans serif bold italic \sigma?
And they look differently?
I'm trying to typeset iso conform (vectors bold italic and tensors sans serif bold italic).
Mechanical stress $\sigma$ is a tensor, but I also want to typeset the normal ...
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Non italic text in theorems, definitions, examples
What package should I use, or what setting can I make to the font in theorems so that the text wouldn't be italic. I use amsmath, and from default, everything I write in theorem environments becomes ...
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Italic small caps in urw-garamond?
I'm using the urw-garamond mathdesign package, which doesn't support italic small-caps. Is there a decent substitute I can use? I've tried the slantsc package with no luck.
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How to set italics and bold shortcuts like *bold* or _italic_
I remember seeing a possible solution here, but can't find it.
Is there any way to simplify bold and italics so that instead of \textbf{bold text} and \textit{italics text} I use simple marks like ...
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\emph or \textit
In the comments section of Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, I asked for a clarification of these points. The clarification has mostly been made, but it was requested that I turn this into a ...
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Italic font commands [duplicate]
Could anyone shed some light on the difference between these three commands for italic effect:
\em{Hellow World}\\
\textit{Hellow World}\\
\emph{Hellow World}
Is there any particular situation one
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remove italics from align
\begin{align*}
P2P &- Peer-to-Peer Network\\
%.....
\end{align*}
I have a Abbreviation page in my PDF. For aligning all the '-' I am using align*.
All the content inside align shows up in ...
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Remove punctuation (comma) after year
For American Society of Genetics journal (Genetics), the bibliography format is somewhat strange. It requires no parenthesis or comma after year field.
Beadle, G. B. et al. 2009 Title of the ...
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Wide accents in Times font are not positioned correctly
I use txfonts or newtx packages to typeset in Times font (NimbusRomNo9L). However, wide accents in math mode are too wide or placed incorrectly, such that they touch the next symbol.
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\textit doesn't work with babel’s russian and mathptmx
\textit doesn't work in a LaTeX template for a thesis in English. Now I am writing my thesis in Russian using the same template. MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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Bold , italic (and sans-serif) math symbols
I would like to implement the suggestions in the TUGboat 30:3, 2009 about the upright/italic and bold/normal in scalars, vectors and tensors. All this is about math.
I use this font:
...
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Aligning \overline to “italics” font
In math mode, the slanted characters look somewhat disconnected from an \overline:
$\overline{P}$ looks odd; of course I would like the bar to be aligned more on the right, at least as much slanted as ...
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Partial italic text in PDF bookmarks
In my LaTeX file I've got some chapter titles with partial italicised text. With the hyperref package, I get the required bookmarks, etc. but the style for these partial italicised text disappears.
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Bad spacing of math letters within italic text
I use the standard AMS theorem style, which means that my theorems are set in italic. In combination with math variables, this sometimes gives horrible spacing: The input If $U$ or $V$ \dots yields
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Removing the italicized parts from an APA bibliography
This journal guidelines requires that
References should follow the APA style, but without any use of italic
type
In the apa6 package some parts of the references are italicized. I'm ...
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Bold and italic in subsection
In the following documentclass
\documentclass[prb,twocolumn,showpacs]{revtex4}
how to have italic and bold in a subsection title?
The italic command removes the boldness when inside a subsection, ...
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Bar-less “f” and finetuning existing characters
Specific question
I would like to produce an italic f without the crossbar. Can I do this relatively straightforwardly?
This letter, esh (ʃ), is Unicode U+01A9, U+0283. The esh of tipa.sty only ...
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How to make bold and italic symbol inside an equation? [duplicate]
My problem is to make bold and italic symbol \widehat{abc}.
According to Online LaTeX Equation Editor I should use \boldsymbol, but it seems not to work in TeXMaker.
Also ...
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Citations never italicized
I have some citations which appear inside a theorem like
\begin{thm}[The Strong Perfect Graph Theorem]\cite[Theorem 8.3]{Cha-Les-Zha11} A graph
$G$ is perfect if and only if neither $G$ nor ...
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Greek letters in italic in math equation
I use \Pi and \Sigma in my math equations however, they are not printed in italic like other text. I guess this is because they are symbols and not really text. Putting \textit into the equation has ...
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Why doesn't my italics work?
Why doesn't my XeLaTeX document turn this word into italics? I simply can't figure it out.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{mla}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
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How to get upright parentheses in the whole document?
My question is, basically, the same as the one in Upright parentheses in italic text: how do I force all parentheses in my document to be upright, without replacing them with some commands "by hand"?
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“Correct” way to bold/italicize text?
Is either of these considered better/more readable/more "proper"/more conventional than the other for making text bold? If so, what is the reason?
I like my text \textbf{bold}
versus:
I like my ...
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Unable to access “Helvetica Neue Ultralight Italic” font [closed]
I want to put some parts of my document in Helvetica Neue UltraLight italic.
I use :
\fontspec{Helvetica Neue Ultralight} \selectfont
\emph{...} ...
or :
\textit{...} ...
But none of 2 ...
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Can the acronym package be told to use a certain style?
I'm using the acronym package and I'm trying to add generic styling. Specifically, I want the first mention of the acronym to expand the long form in italics.
What I've done so far is to say:
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cursive letters inside equation
I want to use cursive font inside an equation. I have defined a macro
\newenvironment{frcseries}{\fontfamily{frc}\selectfont}{}
\newcommand{\textfrc}[1]{{\frcseries#1}}
With this I get cursive ...
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epigraph using \textit
I have created epigraph in my book using the latex command \epigraph. I would use \textit style but I got an epigraph that not follow the margin. when I use \textit it became squeezer
This is what I ...
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Language sensitive italicized quotation with csquotes
In what follows:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt]{book}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\frenchbsetup{IndentFirst=false}
\begin{document}
text ...
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How to display italics with lmodern package [closed]
When I use the lmodern package, I cannot get italics to display. Here is an example:
\listfiles % added to get in the log the package versions
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
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How to change the font shape in the body of theorem environments?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\newtheorem{defn}{Definition}
\newtheorem{pro}{Problem}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
\begin{document}
\begin{defn}
This is the first definition
...
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Remove italics style in bibliography, use only upright font shape
I have a question on the font style of the bibliography.
My references use italics for book titles. Is there any command I can set to make sure all text in the bibliography is in one style only, ...
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Italics emphasis and punctuation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I include punctuation marks in \emph, or should I place those marks after the command?
When emphasizing the last part of a sentence by making it italic, is it ...
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Italic in ConTeXt
What is the equivalent of the LaTeX-code \textit{} in ConTeX? It sets the text in the brackets italic. There is \it but I am searching for something like \startit...\stopit.
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Bold, Italic doesn't work with trebuchet font [closed]
I need to use trebuchet font. But bold and italic don't work.
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{trebuchet}
What I need to work?
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How to deal with it/sl/bold in lmtt?
I just stumbled upon the fact that the font lmtt (latin modern typewriter) seems to exist in
italic
slanted
bold
bold slanted
but not
bold italic
At least the file t1lmtt.fd contains the ...
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Italic Greek characters in Times New Roman
I'm very new to LaTeX! I'm trying to create a template for creating scientific reports as PDFs. I'd like the whole of the document to be in Times New Roman. I've used the package pslatex, which ...
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XeTeX/mathspec punctuation issue
In a previous question, a solution was given for changing the font of punctuation marks in a math environment when using mathspec. Unfortunately, this solution gives the punctuation marks in italics ...
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Italicizing an Author in Biblatex
I would like to italicize the presenting author's name for conference papers in my bibliography. I am using biblatex and I don't know how to do it. (I also don't know how to do it with bibtex.)
I ...
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Upright parentheses in italic text
This question led to a new package:
embrac
Bringhurst, in Elements of Typographic Style, recommends to use upright parentheses in italic text (i.e., write 'a (simple) example' as opposed to 'a ...
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Should lambdas in lambda-calculus be set in italics?
This question is not specific to TeX and derivatives, but I feel that this community is the best to answer it.
Should the letter lambda (λ) be typeset upright or in italics in the following ...
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How to get this font in the picture (“MAX-MIN ant system” italic curved font) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?
can you help me find the right command for this font in the picture, look at the "MAX-MIN" words. Thank you
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Can I set it so that math mode has uppercase letters not italicized?
Is there a way to set it so that math mode automatically stops italicizing upper-case letters? That is, so that $U$ produces the effect of what is now $\mathrm{U}$? I am using computer modern. I am ...
