I've been working on something super similar. https://github.com/paulirish/markpaste https://github.com/paulirish/markpaste There's now a CLI that'll read and

I've been working on something super similar. https://github.com/paulirish/markpaste https://github.com/paulirish/markpaste There's now a CLI that'll read and update your (Mac) clipboard with the result. For this italic use case you'll have to edit the source but it won't be that bad.