Marksville, although occupying a prominent position, and standing out in impressive italics on the map of Louisiana, is, in fact, but a small and insignificant hamlet.
Let's look at a typical reading passage: It's best to start by reading the title and sub-title of the text and look for any pictures or italicised words.
Engraved upon the smooth golden surface, where seconds before there had been nothing, were five words written in the thin, slanted handwriting that Harry recognized as Dumbledore's: I open at the close.
She thrust The life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore under Harry's unwilling eyes and he saw a photograph of the original letter that Dumbledore had written Grindelwald, with Dumbledore's familiar thin, slanting handwriting.
" She has always performed them faithfully; and now, do you think she has no duties to you " ? Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.
I edited essays and interviews, laid out articles, and took a weird amount of pleasure in typographical minutiae, like italicizing and commas and rewriting headlines so they fit the frame just so.