I'm currently trying to "pretty up" a Bujold book (one I bought from Baen, that unfortunately CAME this way
). Wherever they have italicized text, they've screwed up the spacing. Several examples:
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<i>It was a setup, and I've just taken the bait, and they're letting the line play out.</i>Considering what he knew of
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Notice no space after the first italicized sentence and the second sentence.
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of the sort<i>our</i> department
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No space between 'sort' and italicized 'our'.
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"In any case, it's<i>time</i> ," Ivan reiterated.
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In general, they seem to delete leading space when turning italics ON and sometimes inserting an extraneous space when turning them OFF (usually when followed by punctuation).
Anyway, I thought you might like to add these examples to your file of possible things to look for.