When dynamically creating a glossary tool tip on a flash page, the embedded italic text formatting of a TextField which was set in the authoring environment was not showing up at runtime in the flash player.
Apparently there is a bug in the flash player (http://craiggrummitt.blogspot.com/2008/06/kerning-of-dynamic-text-field.html) where the TextFormat information for a TextField is not retained when the text value was changed dynamically using Actionscript.
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