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[Anonymous No.6624442]

If a sentence ends in an italicized word or phrase, does the punctuation also get printed in italics?

In certain typefaces the slanted letters almost wind up touching a non italicized exclamation point or question mark.

[Anonymous No.6624492]

>>6624442

Bump

[Anonymous No.6624759]

>>6624442

I'm a copy editor, and I spend quite a bit of time changing italicized commas back to roman.

It depends but generally I would say the punctuation should not be italicized. The slanted letters touching the non italicized exclamation point are something that could be fixed in typesetting.

[Anonymous No.6627499]

>>6624759
>I'm a copy editor, and I spend quite a bit of time changing italicized commas back to roman.
How can you not do this automatically? search ".</i> " change to "</i>. " = done?

[Anonymous No.6627503]

[i]of course, it does

[Anonymous No.6628106]

>>6627499
yeah Word's search function comes in handy, but you can't just replace all because sometimes the punctuation should be italicize if its part of a whole phrase. Plus some publishers use Word styles to get the manuscript ready for typesetting. I don't know an easy automatic way to remove the 'span italics' style.

[Anonymous No.6628126]

>>6624442

This issue is mostly concerned with arbitrary stylistic deviations, rather than any esoteric grammatical principle. Personally, I don't usually italicize the punctuation after an italicized term (commas, [semi]colons, etc.).