italicized species names in a Rmarkdown distill package

[Bendlexane]

Hi!

I'm feeling dummy but I haven't found any valuable resource to this problem and gpts seems to do not know the answer either. I also searched in past issues too without success.

`--- title: "On the usage of the species Lavandula in Europe" text: !expr htmltools::em("Lavandula") description: | A new article created using the Distill format. author:

• name: Nora Jones url: https://example.com/norajones affiliation: Spacely Sprockets affiliation_url: https://example.com/spacelysprokets date: "r Sys.Date()" output: distill::distill_article ---`

I just want to italicize Lavandula in the title of the distill document and appear properly written in the html Rmarkdown document for a written report. I had also problems to include the mails of authors in the beginnig of the documents.

How can I solve the problem?
Hope this will serve to other scholars

Thank you in advance