At this point am getting around this by creating seperate text and setting the italics on the appropriate text portions i want italicised.
It’s messy, wondering if there was any undocumented markup that can italicise a word, the same way i can superscript a word.
But unfortunately, I see no italic nor Bold in there.
Some time ago the syntax for these things was changed and extended. Both bold and Italic were already implemented for the whole text before that was done, and I guess it just stayed that way. Maybe it was done on purpose because it would otherwise interfere with the “global” italic and bold, but I’m just guessing here.