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In this article: Italics/roman in BibTeX a question was raised but not really answered. I have the same problem, but now with biblatex. If my entry is e.g.:

 @article{Diensberg:boy,
    author= "Diensberg, Bernhard",
    title=  "The etymology of modern English \textit{boy}: a new hypothesis",
    journal="Medium {\AE}vum",
    volume= "50",
    number= "4",
    pages=  "79--87",
    year=   "1981",
  }

then I want "boy" to be romanized if the bibstyle in effect italicizes titles, and italicized if the current bibstyle romanizes titles. I can't see anything in the biblatex manual to achieve this. Is it possible?

I am doing this (and no more):

\usepackage[style=authoryear,sorting=nyt,hyperref,dashed=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1} % no "p" in postnotes
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{`#1'} % no quotes
\DeclareFieldFormat[inbook]{title}{`#1'} % no quotes
\DeclareFieldFormat[incollection]{title}{`#1'} % no quotes
\DeclareFieldFormat[mastersthesis]{title}{`#1'} % no quotes
\renewbibmacro{in:}{} % no "In: "
\renewcommand*{\labelnamepunct}{\addcomma\space} % comma after author, no t"."
\renewcommand*{\newunitpunct}{\addcomma\space} % commas everywhere
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    Don't use the syntactic \textit. Use the semantic \emph. – Guido Aug 01 '14 at 08:49
  • That gives me "BOY" in a roman title. I want italics in this case. – KeithB Aug 01 '14 at 08:58
  • Please provide a full MWE. – musicman Aug 01 '14 at 09:00
  • Technically \emph should do exactly what you want. If it does not, we need to see what bibstyle you use and what modifications you have applied to it. – moewe Aug 01 '14 at 09:25
  • Even with that code \emph works like a charm and produces an italicised "boy". Just a note, you can use csquotes and biblatex's \mkbibquote instead of '#1': \DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{\mkbibquote{#1}} (You might have to convince csquotes too use the right quotation marks though) – moewe Aug 01 '14 at 10:17
  • What do you mean by a “roman title”? – egreg Aug 01 '14 at 10:28
  • A non-italic title. – KeithB Aug 01 '14 at 10:40

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