Italic font-style not showing

[jivimberg]

Hi there! I've noticed that using italics on markdown makes not difference on the resulting text style. Is this intentional? If not I'd be glad to help fixing the issue. For now I have workaround it by adding this to the sass/custom/_layout.scss

em {
    font-style: italic;
}

This is only a workaround of course, but I'm not really sure where to make the necessary changes for the em tag. Regards!

[jivimberg]

I'm seeing that this block of code is preventing the italics to be properly formatted:

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0;
    font: inherit;
    font-size: 100%;
    vertical-align: baseline;
}

In particular the font directive is overshadowing the next block:

i, cite, em, var, address, dfn {
    font-style: italic;
}

Can somebody explain me where this block of code comes from (I couldn't find it in any of the other .scss files) and what is it's purpose?

Thanks!

[Zettt]

@jivimberg Did you find a fix for this issue? I'd love to italics too, for obvious reasons.

[jivimberg]

In the end I kind of hack it because I couldn't find out where that bit was coming from. Here's what I did: jivimberg/jivimberg.github.io@8c65e1a5a8807f3cc02b31dae55eae959334e8fb

[Zettt]

@jivimberg That's a less than ideal solution but works. Thank you very much!

[alexeyza]

I have a similar question - how can I make quoteblocks to be in italic font. I tried changing it (various SCSS files) and no luck (no problem in changing quoteblock font color though).