How to make italics left leaning in Pages?

Working in pages. Does anyone know how to make italics left leaning instead of the usual right leaning? Instructions will need to be very simple. Thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.8

Posted on Feb 6, 2026 3:15 AM

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Feb 6, 2026 3:46 AM in response to dmwriter

dmwriter wrote:

Working in pages. Does anyone know how to make italics left leaning instead of the usual right leaning? Instructions will need to be very simple. Thanks

It might be possible with a retalic font choice, but not standard in fonts provided with macOS for the English language. Pages certainly has no faux retalic feature performing a mirror effect on normal italics.


One can effect the retalic effect when using a full MacTeX installation, though unrelated to Pages.

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How to make italics left leaning in Pages?

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