Do it this way: “*Shipname* is in port for the next week.” > On Apr 4, 2023, at 4:22 PM, Some Author Guy wrote: > > I'm writing a book with ships in it. It's not uncommon for a quote to begin with the name of a ship, which I will attempt to italicize, but then to continue with normal speech, which ought not to be italicized. Consider the following paragraph: > > *"Shipname* is in port for the next week." > > This always fails. I get a pair of asterisks in the output and no italics. I don't have this problem without the unbalanced quotation mark, but I don't know why that is. I can't imagine why the quote would have any significance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/d0cd8bd4-e274-4a91-a34d-5d72cbc4b984n%40googlegroups.com . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/2DE97F2C-9B6F-48BE-9EF3-271A71A0E383%40gmail.com.