Italic causes unwanted line break

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Hi,

I’ve been having this problem for quite a while.

What I’m trying to do

If I try to set some long sentence to italic , Obsidian sends that full sentence to a new line:

- This should be in the same line:  _Get help from fellow Obsidian users. Don’t forget to check out our User Guide! There are separate sections on the forum for API and CSS questions. If you prefer chatting, there’s a channel on Discord._

which results in:

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The behaviour is different for bold which keeps the text in the same line.

Things I have tried

I have tried a lot of different combinations in the settings, including turning Strict line-breaks and fold ident on and off and nothing changes this behaviour.

Does anyone know how to fix this???

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My test

Italic-test
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I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Text blocks wrap because of:

  • left or right side panels,
  • some theme/CSS
  • max screen width
  • check out “Settings>editor>display>readable line length”
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So is it expected behavior that something in italic should cause a line break?

4

No, it’s not to be expected, so there is something in your setup causing it. Here is an example with your text, and some lorem ipsum.

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It’s ordinary line breaks within the italics formatted text.

It do seem like your italics is very slanted, so maybe you have some extra formatting for italics causing this issue?

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I don’t know if you ever figured out what was causing your issue. But I had the same issue, I am using the PLN theme and in that theme CSS I found"

/* more italic */
em, .cm-em {
    display: inline-block;
    transform: skew(-10deg);
}

getting rid of this line of code fixed my issue. I am sure it will be back with a theme update so simply deleting it may not be the answer. Instead creating a custom snippet that overrides the theme may serve as a better long-term solution.

Hope this helps in some way.

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