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You know, I stand corrected -- the font does seem to matter in a way. If the font does not have an italic version, it does not double-italicize. If you crack open the rtf in something like TextWrangler, and compare it to an rtf made in TextEdit (which does not show the issue) you can see a differenc...

Unfortunately, the font does not seem to matter.

Thanks to you both for your replies. I've tried "saving as" and exporting as a doc and docx, and the issue appears no matter the route. Interesting that it disappeared for you, Martin, but thanks for taking a look. Indeed, as you found, Word applied a forced italics to the italicized font ...

Hi, When I export to Word, or open an rtf in word, I've noticed something strange with italics. It seems that in Word, any text that was in italics appears in the italicized font with a slanted faux-italics (a mathematical slant, or pseudo-italics) applied in addition to the italicized typeface. (At...