Text Formatting ⇒ Italicizing more than one Paragraph

[snowfrog]

Hi,

I have a section in a manuscript that requires that all the paragraphs be italicized. Do I have to write add \textit e.g. at the beginning of each paragraph

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\textit{paragraph1}
\textit{pargraph2}
\textit{and so on...}

or is there a way to have the entire section in italics with a single command?

Thank you

[localghost]

For this purpose there are several switches to get different font styles. In this case the \itshape command should do.


Thorsten

[snowfrog]

In this case the \itshape command should do.

I tried

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\itshape{paragraph1

paragraph2}

and so on...

where I want paragraph1 and paragraph2 in italics but not "and so on..." but "and so on..." is in italics. What am I doing wrong?

[localghost]

These commands are switches which don't have any argument. You have to use another switch to get back.

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\itshape
% Text passage to be italicized
\upshape

[snowfrog]

Perfect. Thank you for the prompt response

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Instead of switching back by \upshape, you could use grouping to limit the scope of \itshape, such as

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{\itshape your italic text} other text

or

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\begingroup
  \itshape
  your italic text
\endgroup
other text

which could be meaningful if it's not clear if the text outside is really upshape, and stays so.

Stefan