Serious writing (in the Latin script) needs italics

[acdw]

Just to add a wrinkle, another terribly hacky thing you can do is use raw terminal escapes to encode when you want italic and bold and underline, as well as different colors, if you just want to.

However, I think it is a sign of stronger writing if an author is able to convey their meaning without resorting to what's essentially metadata in their text.  Use syntax, word choice, and punctuation to express your intent!

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