Italics grayed out

[Massachusetts user]

I am trying to get book titles in Italics in a journal bibliography format that I've created, but in the Fonts menu, "Italics" is grayed out. I can get bold and underline, but not italics. What is going wrong?

P.S. I am pretty sure the italics were there in this format before I upgraded to version 12, in case that's relevant.

[Jon]

What font are you using? Does it have an italic face (this is Cocoa now)? That means fonts like Lucida Grande, for example, shouldn't be used for formatted references.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Massachusetts user]

Thanks -- apparently everything had indeed defaulted to Lucida Grande. It was fine in version 11, but in any case I have what I want now.

[Massachusetts user]

Actually, I take it back. Changing the font in the format descriptions ("book chapter" etc.) allows me to italicize the "t." for title, "v" for edited volume etc. -- but it has no effect on the output. Again, this is all new behavior since updating. So there's still a problem.

[Jon]

In Carbon font faces were faked. Lucida Grande worked if you stayed in a Carbon app (Bookends, Word), but failed if you used a Cocoa one (Mellel, Pages).

You should should be checking/changing the default fonts for references and bibliographies in preferences, not doing ad hoc changes in individual fields.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Massachusetts user]

Thanks, that seems to have solved the problem.