[grammatim[_2_]]

On Jan 21, 12:08*am, p0 wrote:

(As a personal remark: using meaningless italics throughout a
paragraph actually has a negative influence on its readability. People
quickly scanning through a text tend to focus on differently formatted
parts. I doubt anyone would want to focus on 'et al'.)

Style guides generally do not want bibliographic abbreviations of
Latin terms to be italicized -- et al., ibid., idem, passim, etc.;
e.g., i.e., cf.