By the way, <i> is deprecated (or disencouraged) because rather than specifying the style in the HTML you are supposed to specify
why it needs a different style, and then specify the style in CSS. Something like this:
Code:
And then I found <em>him</em> on board the <span class="ship">Furious</span>, during the <span xml:lang="fr">hors-d'œuvres</span>.
even if all of them will be shown in italics:
Code:
em, span.ship, :lang(fr) { font-style: italics; }
they might be different in text-to-speech, for instance.
P.S. One might need more nesting levels:
Code:
em em, em span.ship, em :lang(fr) { font-style: normal; }
:lang(fr) em, :lang(fr) span.ship { font-style: normal; }