"Furthermore, the ones I used above mess with apparent line spacing."
Yeah, yeah, that's the glitch I was talking about. Dropped 2-3 lines on me and I couldn't even see the character.
Note: We could use the second one in comments the way people use asterisks. Just to screw with people who will wonder why ours are showing. If they ask about it, just act like it looks fine on your end: all italics. Haha.