{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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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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Is there a difference between \textit and \itshape?
I have only ever used \textit (and \emph for emphasized text), but have noticed that in some TeX examples, \itshape is used instead of \textit. Is there a difference between \textit and \itshape? If ...
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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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Bold italic vectors
I am trying to display vectors as bold and italic. The command \mathbf sets the letters non-italic. I also googled a bit and stumbled upon \mathbf{\em y} or \mathbfit{y}, which all didn't work.
I ...
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Should subscripts in math mode be upright?
In one-letter subscripts, like $x_i$, the subscript is usually typeset italic.
Is this the typographically right thing to do?
Consider this case:
The Boltzmann constant is often written as $k_B$, ...
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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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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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Is there a way to set math mode font non-italic?
I read many things about people wanting math mode in sans-serif font and doing crazy things with packages and options to get that, but I did not find anything that would simply make my math mode font ...
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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 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 shape needed in small caps fonts
I am using MiKTeX 2.5 version. Is there any possibility to change the small caps fonts in italic shape?
I had tried as like below
\textit{\textsf{Small Caps}}% This will gives the Regular Small ...
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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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Bar-less âfâ 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 (Ę), is Unicode U+01A9, U+0283. The esh of tipa.sty only ...
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Bold, italic math (\bm) and sansmath
I'm typesetting both text and math in Latin Modern, except for the figures, where I would like to use a sans serif font for both text and math.
I need to follow the ISO recommendations for math ...
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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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How do I change the math italic font in XeTeX/fontspec?
I have a document where the main font is Gotham Book. So in my preamble I have:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Gotham Book}
As the fontspec manual describes, this sets the math roman font to ...
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Is it possible to italicize journal names and book titles through the .bst file?
I am working on an article for a Springer journal, and the specifications for manuscripts clearly ask to italicize all journal names and book titles. Doing it manually feels stupid, so I wonder if ...
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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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using \textit in \section{} with beamer class
For a presentation using the beamer class (MiKTeX 2.8 with TeXnicCenter on Windows Vista) I need to have the italicized title of a book in a section heading. When I use \textit{...} or \emph{...} ...
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LuaLaTeX protrusion problem with Negative value
Please see the following screen shots.
As you can see there are two "overfull" hbox there. However, LaTeX does not produced any overfull box warning at all. I tried to produce a minimal working ...
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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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blackboard italic font
I would like to make \mathbb{E} italic, i have tried \mathit{\mathbb{E}} and \mathbb{\mathit{E}}, both of them look like \mathbb{E}, I can not see the italic effect. Could anyone help?
By the way, I ...
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\emph yields bold-italic using the package “libertine”
How can I make \emph use italics again after loading the package libertine? I suspect that this may be a bug in the font itself. I tried reinstalling the font and upgrading it onto the most recent ...
