Why is italic text not displayed in html files generated from Docbook/Oxygen

Question

I'm using Oxygen Xml Editor 15 to generate Docbook Html, Docbook Webhelp and Docbook Pdf from a single Xml file in Docbook format. The pdf file is fine but the Html and webhelp files are not outputting the text I made italic as italic, text I made bold is shown as bold.

When I look at the html of the outputted data I can see Bold uses <span class="italic"> and Italic uses <span class="italic"> so both are using a similar mechanism, Webhelp references the stylesheet oxygen-webhelp/resources/css/webhelp_topic.css but I cant see a bold or an italic class within it. Html doesnt reference any stylesheet. Both files say they used DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1

How can I fix this so italics are shown, preferably by modifying a setting in Oxygen so I don't have to do it every time I regenerate the text.

Answer 1

Need to add these two styles:

.bold {
    font-weight:bold;
}

.italic {
    font-style:italic;
}

to

OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\docbook\xsl\com.oxygenxml.webhelp\oxygen-webhelp\resources\css\webhelp_topic.css