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Originally Posted by ghostyjack
My main issue is with italic or emphasised text. Do I include it within the <i></i>/<em></em> tags or leave it outside of them.
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I'm am not a native English speaker or reader, so take this with a grain of salt. It seems to me that whether or not to include punctuation in the formatting of a previous word is a matter of the publisher's/printer's style, and it changes with time too. Personally, I'm more scientific-minded, and don't like the punctuation being in the style of the word, unless it belongs there (as, for instance, a period that ends an abbreviaton), and from the coding point of view I think it makes more sense. But then, I also don't like punctuation being inside quote marks, although it's ubiquitous in English dialogues.
Most important is: be consistent.