In some instances, parentheses around scientific names are rendered in italics (but shouldn’t). First image shows issue, second shows proper format. Small thing but perhaps fixable. [italics] [italics-good]

Fixed in: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2163

Can you provide URLs to those two pages?

I see issue on all observations, but screenshots above taken from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20372396 . I get same behavior on Chrome and Safari so I don’t think it’s a browser rendering bug. Also, if useful for diagnosing … when selecting the lines with mouse, the parentheses are not …

The second graphic on original post (instance where parentheses have normal format) was taken from my Dashboard view. Here’s a larger view of that situation, with text selected to show that the parentheses are just text: [05%20AM]

Parentheses around scientific names are sometimes italicized

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tiwane February 23, 2019, 12:22am 5

Got it. I’ve made an issue for this.

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Parentheses around scientific names are sometimes italicized

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