Saving italics in Subtitle Edit | Holding the tail to wag the dog

Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Saving italics in Subtitle Edit
Poster: José Henrique Lamensdorf
Post title: Holding the tail to wag the dog

[quote]Janica Lundholm wrote:

Thanks José,

I guess I'll just have to ask the customer if I can deliver in ASS insted of usf.

But it's surprising if they prefer "lo-level" file formats, since it's a very high-reputed company. Do you know if usf-files normally should keep italics? I suspect there's something wrong with my installation... [/quote]

Apparently SE "thinks" USF can't cope with the < i > commands, which is not true:
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(J'ai verifié, tu comprends bien le Français.)

So one way to circumvent that "safety" could be to save as SSA, and then use:
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... to convert them to USF (unless there are non-disclosure issues involved).