[Tex/LaTex] Palatino italics relatively small in body text

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I'm using Palatino (\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}) as the main font for my thesis, and it occurred to me that italic (and possibly also bold) body texts are somewhat smaller than the '\normalsize\normalfont' texts.

Here is an image to illustrate the phenomenon:

image illustrating the phenomenon

Is this default Palatino behavior? Is there a way to particularly change the size of the italic and bold parts of the body text?

Best Answer

There's probably something in your preamble messing things, because, by default, the italics of Palatino match the height of the roman:

result of the code below

Here's the code I used:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}
\parindent=0em
\begin{document}
\textit{is expected to integrate with current}\par
xt three propositions (\textit{A softw}\par
\textit{software architecture quality} \textbf{(P2)},\par
\textbf{(P4))} are also confirmed: en\par
\end{document}