At least for the Index, Joel, here is how I achieved that:

\defineprocessor[special][style=italic]

And then by way of an example in the text referring to a newspaper:

\index{special->Age, The} {\em The  Age} of 31 July 2018

Julian

On 21/3/25 03:28, Joel via ntg-context wrote:

Its common convention to italicize words that are of a different language. I've tried marking these words, but then when they also appear in the glossary and index, they are not appearing in the correct placement--somehow the italicized words appear under the "s" category, no matter what letter they start with.

Is there any way in ConTeXt to just give it a list of words, and it will italicize them wherever they are found in the text, no matter they are in the body, some index, etc.?

--Joel

One can also use a construct such as

\index[New York Times]{{\em The New York Times}}

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Rik