Having an italics option for text in the assignment/course grade comments box in Populi would be welcome: currently the only way to emphasize words or mark the titles of texts (which I would expect to be commonplace in a course comment box) is by using all caps or quotation marks, which is a little limited. Even this "suggest an idea" comment box, for example, allows for italics--as well as bolding, bulleting, numbering, and strikeing-through text, most of which would probably be overkill for the function served by the assignment/course grade comment box, but an italics option I think is more essential.
thanks for considering this,
Jonathan