Apropos which, one of the whackinesses of modern publishing is that Adobe InDesign, the publishing package that has mostly displaced Quark in the typesetting bi

Apropos which, one of the whackinesses of modern publishing is that Adobe InDesign, the publishing package that has mostly displaced Quark in the typesetting biz, frequently loses italics when importing a Microsoft Word document. And if the author suffers from middle-aged memory issues (as is quite common, because a "young" author is anyone under 45) there's a good chance they'll forget to put them back in when they're checking the page proofs.