Feature Request: styles within a text box

I couldn't find an official feature request thread.

If there is one, please could a moderator move this.

Many thanks.

I desperately need to have some words italicized within a standard text box.

Could there be a way to include certain tags to do this?

It's not the standard textbox object but there's a plugin.

and I think there's a tutorial for making a textbox like object out of the text object somewhere.