Is there a way to not italicize a word in a textit expression?

I would like to have a sentence like this:

In the Smith case, the Supreme Court held...

where the entire sentence is in italics except for "Smith" since it is the short name of a case. (You can imagine many other examples like this with movies, etc.)

I would like to be able to do something like:

textitIn the textitSmith case, the Supreme Court held...


However, the above code makes everything italics. Is there something I can do to make Smith non-italicized without resorting to the below code?

textitIn the Smith textitcase, the Supreme Court held...


The only problem I have with that piece of code is that it makes editing problematic if I decide that I'd rather have "Smith" at another place in the sentence.

I appreciate any and all help -- even if the help is simply that the solution I want does not exist.

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2 Answers
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That's exactly what emph does:

emph

documentclassarticle

begindocument

emphIn the emphSmith case, the Supreme Court helddots

enddocument


or, if you prefer to manually control that, then you can use textup:

textup

documentclassarticle

begindocument

textitIn the textupSmith case, the Supreme Court helddots

enddocument


emph

I usually use:

textitThis is my text, but I want normalfont this to not be in italics.


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