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True italic styles are traditionally somewhat narrower than roman fonts. Here is an example of normal and true italics text: Example text set in both roman and italic type. In oblique text, the same type is used as in normal type, but slanted to the right: The same example text set in oblique type
These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks.
Italics should not be used for non-English text in non-Latin scripts, such as Chinese characters and Cyrillic script, or for proper names, to which the convention of italicizing non-English words and phrases does not apply; thus, a title of a short non-English work simply receives quotation marks.
Colors are important for emphasizing. Important words in a text may be colored differently from others. For example, many dictionaries use a different color for headwords, and some religious texts color the words of deities red, commonly referred to as rubric. In Ethiopic script, red is used analogously to italics in Latin text. [18]
Italic peoples, Italic-language speaking people of ancient Italy Italic languages , an Indo-European language family Old Italic alphabet , an alphabet of ancient Italy
When editors themselves translate text into English, care must always be taken to include the original text, in italics (except for non-Latin-based writing systems, and best done with the {} template which both italicizes as appropriate and provides language metadata); and to use actual and (if at all possible) common English words in the ...
The tome of internet terminology, Urban Dictionary, has several entries that say mostly the same thing about what FAFO means. One post from 2017, which is one of the most top-rated posts, states ...
Reduce Latin quotations and terms from all capitals, [c] and put them in italics as non-English. As this is a form of transliteration, the Latin V should be normalized to v or u, as appropriate, per modern conventions for rendering Latin. (See below for a linguistics exception. See also WP:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Non-English language ...