CWYW: Maintain formatting (italics) in page numbers

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When you cite things like dictionaries, you’ll normally want to cite the dictionary entry you’re quoting from, and this should preferably be italicised; for example:

… see Liddell–Scott–Jones (1940: 823, s.v._ἄριστος_) …

When typing in unformatted references in CWYW in Word, the obvious way you’d think to manage this would be to simply write:

… see {Liddell, 1940 #1234@823`, s.v._ἄριστος_@author-year} …

– italicising the word within the page number which you want to appear in italics in the final citation.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t work. EndNote strips all formatting – even applied character styles – from the entire unformatted reference text string, converting it to plain text, before analysing it and using it to create an EndNote reference.

Is there some way to tell EndNote to italicise text in the formatted citation? Some special CWYW code that means ‘italics’, à la Markdown’s ἄριστος, which would yield italics when un-Markdowned?

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Yeah, this is only perhaps 20 or 30 out of more than a thousand citations in the book, so it makes more sense to keep the Author-Date formatting as is and then manually italicise at the end. So far I’ve been adding comments to remind myself when things need formatting at the end – I was just hoping perhaps there was some way to automate it.