Should the entire weapon line be italicized?

[Isaac Volynskiy]

There's a difference in what gets the italics between the PRD and the PFSRD. I was partial to the latter, but should we do it in the style of the former?

[Joseph Kellogg]

The PRD is official. The PFSRD is not official.

[Adam Daigle]

RainyDayNinja wrote:

The PRD is official. The PFSRD is not official.

This is correct.

To add to that, if you are ever curious about how to properly style your material, I strongly suggest looking at actual print products (or PDFs) to get it right.

[Isaac Volynskiy]

Thanks for confirming, both of you.

[The black raven]

Did you guys check the sun blade entry in the PRD ? It seems to have its italics all kind of missing for the item's name.

Or are there some esoteric formatting rules I did not perceive nor know about ?

[Adam Daigle]

I don't see what you're seeing. It looks right to me.

Here's a handy list of pretty much the only things that get italicized:

Book titles
Foreign terms
Some headings
Ship names
Spell names
Magic items
Spell-like abilities (that are also spell names)

[The black raven]

Adam Daigle wrote:

I don't see what you're seeing. It looks right to me.

The following text is copy pasted from the PRD here. I put in italics the places where sun blade is in italics on the page and in bold the places where it is not in italics. Or at least that is how I see it on my browser ;-)

I know of at least one person who took this to mean that plural of magic items should not be italicized and I do not think that is what's intended.

SUN BLADE
Price 50,335 gp; Aura moderate evocation; CL 10th; Weight 2 lbs.
This sword is the size of a bastard sword. However, a sun blade is wielded as if it were a short sword with respect to weight and ease of use. In other words, the weapon appears to all viewers to be a bastard sword, and deals bastard sword damage, but the wielder feels and reacts as if the weapon were a short sword. Any individual able to use either a bastard sword or a short sword with proficiency is proficient in the use of a sun blade. Likewise, Weapon Focus and Weapon Specialization in short sword and bastard sword apply equally, but the benefits of those feats do not stack.
In normal combat, the glowing golden blade of the weapon is equal to a +2 bastard sword. Against evil creatures, its enhancement bonus is +4. Against Negative Energy Plane creatures or undead creatures, the sword deals double damage (and ×3 on a critical hit instead of the usual ×2).
The blade also has a special sunlight power. Once per day, the wielder can swing the blade vigorously above his head while speaking a command word. The sun blade then sheds a bright yellow radiance that acts like bright light and affects creatures susceptible to light as if it were natural sunlight. The radiance begins shining in a 10-foot radius around the sword wielder and extends outward at 5 feet per round for 10 rounds thereafter, to create a globe of light with a 60-foot radius. When the wielder stops swinging the sword, the radiance fades to a dim glow that persists for another minute before disappearing entirely. All sun blades are of good alignment, and any evil creature attempting to wield one gains one negative level. The negative level remains as long as the sword is in hand and disappears when the sword is no longer wielded. This negative level cannot be overcome in any way (including by restoration spells) while the sword is wielded.
CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS

Cost 25,335 gp
Craft Magic Arms and Armor, daylight, creator must be good

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Here's a handy list of pretty much the only things that get italicized:

Book titles
Foreign terms
Some headings
Ship names
Spell names
Magic items
Spell-like abilities (that are also spell names)

This list is great. Thanks a lot Adam.

[Adam Daigle]

The black raven wrote:

Adam Daigle wrote:

I don't see what you're seeing. It looks right to me.

The following text is copy pasted from the PRD here. I put in italics the places where sun blade is in italics on the page and in bold the places where it is not in italics. Or at least that is how I see it on my browser ;-)

I know of at least one person who took this to mean that plural of magic items should not be italicized and I do not think that is what's intended.

Weird! Thanks for pointing that out. I was looking at the sun blade entry here, which is the entry for the Core Rulebook, and the one you linked was the one from Ultimate Equipment. Looks like something slipped through in the item's transition from one to the other.

[Thomas LeBlanc]

The black raven wrote:

Adam Daigle wrote:

I don't see what you're seeing. It looks right to me.

The following text is copy pasted from the PRD here. I put in italics the places where sun blade is in italics on the page and in bold the places where it is not in italics. Or at least that is how I see it on my browser ;-) ...

EDIT: The bolded instance are showing as italics in both IE and Firefox for me. Nevermind, the UE one is off as you stated.

Phone browsers don't get along well with the Paizo site for some reason, at least for my last 2 phones and my wife's phone.

[Garrick Williams]

Don't use PFSRD. They don't format things properly. Sometimes, they format things that shouldn't be formatted because they used some kind of automated script. For example, italicizing a word because it's coincidentally the name of a spell.