Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-1783453-20170204062342/@comment-9605025-20170204185740

I think it is because you have nested ''. I believe it gets interpreted as text to italicizenon-italicized texttext to italicize. The reason is that, when the templates are nested, the first '' in Template:Q gets matched-up with the first one in Template:Sic. The one from Tempalte:Q is intepreted as the opening and the one from Template:Sic is interpreted as the closing. Then, the last one in Template:Sic is interpreted as another opening '' ; which makes the last one in Template:Q the closing.

For example:
 * "  This text and sic this text should be italicized, but not "sic". "


 * "  This text and sic this text should be italicized, but not "sic". "

Note that there are also a few other formatting issues due to the fact that the sub and abbr tags get cut by the italics. I would suggest using div instead of span if possible. Hello There Hello There Hello There Hello There