add italic inline text style section

diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/inline-text-styles.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/inline-text-styles.adoc
index 7536042..7c7df02 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/inline-text-styles.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/inline-text-styles.adoc
@@ -20,3 +20,15 @@ How xref:antora:asciidoc:bold.adoc[text marked up as bold] appears on your site
 ----
 
 In the default UI, the `strong` element, specified in [.path]_css/base.css_, uses the 500 weight fonts loaded by the typeface stylesheets.
+
+[#italics]
+== Italic text
+
+How xref:antora:asciidoc:italics.adoc[italicized text] appears on your site depends on the fonts loaded by the UI and any CSS styles it applies to the `<em>` HTML tag.
+
+[source,html]
+----
+<p>An italic <em>word</em>, and an <em>italic phrase</em>.</p>
+----
+
+In the default UI, the italic fonts (`font-style: italic`) loaded by the typeface stylesheets are applied to inline text enclosed in `<em>`.