[Tex/LaTex] Italicise index entry

indexingitalic

I am making an index using makeidx.

Is the following not okay? This does not work for me.

\index{Brazil!\textit{subentry text}}

The same without italics (\index{Brazil!subentry text}) works fine.

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The sort order of the subentries will be wrong likely, because \textit is included in the sort string. The @-notation can be used to specify a sort key without markup commands:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex

\begin{document}
\null
\index{Brazil!aaa}
\index{Brazil!zzz}
\index{Brazil!\textit{wrong entry}}
\index{Brazil!subentry text@\textit{subentry text}}
\printindex
\end{document}

Commands:

pdflatex test
makeindex test
pdflatex test

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[Tex/LaTex] Warning/Error While using textit

Some reminders:

Don't use ~\\ while ending lines.
Don't use two \\ to end a paragraph.
Use \par in place of all ~\\ and ~\\~\\ or leave a blank line.
If you are using italic shape for an entire paragraph, it is better to use itshape (which is a switch) inside a group → {\itshape your text...}.

Having said that, this works:

\documentclass[11pt,a5paper]{article}
\begin{document}
{\itshape \textbf{Some Text}

 This gene encodes the pro-alpha1 chains of type III collagen.\par
SSS.\par
ZZZZ in the ZZZ3A1 gene, which ZZZ type III pro-XXX, cause type IV SSS-Danlos
   SSS, a rw rw to rw SSS in SSS rwr rw.}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Plain text in italics

You could just stop the command, then restart it.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}

\textit{Here is some itallic text,} some regular text, \textit{and more itallic text.}  

\end{document}

Would produce

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