Either can, technically. Redefining the "italics" tag to be rendered as, say, smallcaps, is, however, not especially sensible. What you mean to be doing is plac

Either can, technically. Redefining the "italics" tag to be rendered as, say, smallcaps, is, however, not especially sensible. What you mean to be doing is placing an emphasis, however you may want to style that.