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Originally Posted by HarryT
With italics, I always include any immediately-following punctuation in the italics.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thank you - that's very interesting. It's good to know that I follow the "Oxford" convention.
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Not if the "always" in the first quote is really "always"
As far as I understand it, the "Oxford" convention is also what I like, using bold red for clarity:
"What are you
saying?!" (The question, exclamation and quote do not belong to the bold red part, which is just an emphasis on the word "saying")
I heard a faint
Help! from inside. (The exclamation belongs to bold red, because it's the whole sentence with its punctuation being emphasized or "quoted")