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Originally Posted by bookman156
Incidentally, I suppose I may as well say that I am a print book editor for large publishers by profession and I never allow bold italic, except where it occurs in headings.
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Yes, well and that provides you with a privilege, in our small corner of the world here--you work with pros, proper editors, etc. For the rest of us, we who slog through the muck and mire, we don't get to have such luxuries as the No Bold Dictums. ;-) That must truly be lovely. I envy you! Not the least of which would be the usual TATs, too. Gosh, I wonder what that's like?
Listen, I have writers that express
sudden stoppages of speech with
ellipses. I have those who express "trailing off" with em-dashes. I have the dreaded 4-dot ellipsis in the middle of cited material, mind you--not the
end of cited material, or cited (and omitted) material that crosses a period/full-stop. Nope, just willy-nilly hither and yon.
Those are just everyday,
routine, things. Here in the land of those who slave, well...unless we wish to also be unpaid proofreaders and editors for our customers (and promptly fail to make a living), as we say,
you gotta run what you brung.
:-)
Hitch