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Italic: * this text will be italic* = this text will be italic

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  1. Relating to Italy or to its people.
  2. Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.
  3. An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

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  1. a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
  2. a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
  3. a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative
  4. of or relating to the Italic languages
  5. characterized by slanting characters

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  • Italic: * this text will be italic* = this text will be italic —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • Miles took it one step further by styling for in designs for interaction in Baskerville, italic, as well. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Courier 12 point italic is a different font from Courier 10 point bold. —  WordPress.com Top Blogs
  • It strips out some of the formatting, but now supports bold, italic, and underlined text. —  Techie Buzz
  • Earlier it removed all the formatting, but now supports bold, italic, and underlined text, left, right, center, and justified alignment, unicode characters, tables and a lot more! —  Bloggers.Pakistan
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