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					Originally Posted by Catlady  If I saw an explanation of punctuation or fonts at the beginning of a book, my first impulse would be to close that book and go on to something else. 
 I am curious why you use square brackets when the conventional way to indicate direct thoughts is italics.
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 It comes from my early days of ebook formatting. Some of the displays I used, such as on some PDAs, couldn't display italics so I used square brackets.