I've found the only way to preserve formatting (italics, etc) from where I write/edit is to export it to HTML and paste that in to Tapas. This is fine, and what I've done on other sites before, but I've been having issues with Tapas arbitrarily adding extra styles when I paste (font size, font color [though the color disappears once I publish]). I've done a number of experiments and I can't figure out when or why, but sometimes my font will be grey and small, other times it will be large and black. I don't care that much which style I end up with in the end (though the smaller font reads better imo), but it's currently random per-episode and seems to get locked to that episode!
What I mean is, I'll copy/paste episodes from the same source into Tapas and some will be large and some will be small. These styles are not coming from the source. The Tapas editor has no options for font size. I can't figure out any way to change it. I've even copied episodes which have ended up with small fonts and pasted them into the editor for episodes with large font and vice versa. I've also tried on both mac and windows. Nothing overrides the font settings Tapas has arbitrarily chosen for that episode. So currently I have 28 episodes published and they keep jumping back and forth between font styles as you read.
Anyone else dealing with this? Please help!