Choice for colored printing of italics - like it is featured for dialogs

[moustaleurie]

Hello everybody,
I was wondering if anybody else feels that adding an option for css color printing text in italics would be a good idea.
I use italics mainly as inner thoughts, which in a vague way is a type of dialog - inner dialog.
The in app coloring for italics really helps me to easily navigate and also to quickly differentiate inner thoughts from narration.
For those cases I believe when building / exporting a file, the option of printing italics in different color would be very helpful.
I understand that I can still place italics within '' to make them print in color - but in my mind those two (inner and normal dialog are completely different things for the reader and their formating / coloring should be as well - if any).

On the other hand, there are cases someone would use italics for special formating (like to write a narration part, or a past event, etc). So, I understand that there is a further step that could be even more helpful, if the devs agree with my point of view of course.
► feature to enable creation of two separate types of italics
a) one that can be printed in different color when we build and export our text
b) one that prints as simple text with italics format

Thank you all for your time.

[vkbo]

This is a very interesting point. As you've noticed, using the shortcodes [i]...[/i] does not get highlighting in the editor, so there you can mix and match. (Although I noticed that the two last words are not italics, which may be a formatting bug or at least limitation that I can look into fixing.)

This difference between _..._ and [i]...[/i] is lost once the document is built, so any highlight in the output will be for neither or for both, so that is the tricky part.

I will give this some more thought. Feel free to make a feature request though.