Question: I need to italicize a word in the title of my submission. In the final preview page before submission on arXiv, the word is not being italicized rather I see:

> 
> \textit{word}
> 
> 
> 

This is the case for both title and abstract. Screenshot:
[arXiv submission page](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kUqzT.png)

Is there a solution for this?

For reference, <https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01521> has some LaTex text in the title.

Answer: 
Unless it's absolutely unavoidable to use LaTeX in the title or abstract, don't. Lots of people use RSS feeds or other non-MathJax-enabled methods to browse the arXiv.
You can do it with MathJax:

```
$\textit{word}$

```