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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'll disagree. For example in Star Trek books, italic is used during a communication conversation. One side it italic and the other not. It's to differentiate who is speaking. And it's used for a Captain's log entry.
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Those are different, not a single italic word in a paragraph. The remote side of a conversation would be entire paragraphs. The log being in italics is entire paragraphs, like letter or quotation. Both of those wouldn't contravene any style guide.
So I'm agreeing with you.