Italic

Italicizing text in the Homebrewery is very easy via Markdown syntax, and works in much the same as “bolding” text, with the same caveat that there is a difference between “italicizing” and “emphasizing” text. Where “bold” is to “strong”, “italic” is to “emphasis”. But first, the markup:

Markup

Using Markdown in the Brew Editor, you can markup spans of text with the em tag, short for emphasis:

Proident aute *veniam deserunt deserunt* elit qui culpa velit adipisicing incididunt.

or...

Proident aute _veniam deserunt deserunt_ elit qui culpa velit adipisicing incididunt.

Proident aute <em>veniam deserunt deserunt</em> elit qui culpa velit adipisicing incididunt.

Long ago you would expect italics to be achieve with the <i> tag, but like the <b> tag (for “bold”) the semantic meaning of the tag should be independent of the aesthetic styling of the tag. You may want to give a certain span of text emphasis, but do so in a way that follows your theme better than italicizing it.

Styling

To change the appearance of em tags, you can target them like any other HTML element in the Style Editor and apply different properties with CSS:

CSS

.page em {
  font-style: unset;
  font-family: monospace;
  font-size: 9px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
}

   /*  reminder: length/size units can be px, in, cm, mm, %, em, rem, ... */