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Originally Posted by ghostyjack
I may be able to speak English (seeing as it's my native tongue), but when it comes to writing it down I can never figure out the correct way of formatting punctuation in documents.
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.
Are there also any cases where it doesn't matter.
Also I have books in British English as well as American English, so if you are able to provide any info for this, please and you state for which language it's for.
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I speak American English, but the following should also apply to British English. When it comes to formatting with HTML, I treat a punctuation mark as part of the word that it is next to. As an example, with a period at the end of a sentence, I'd put the closing tag after the period rather than between the sentence's last word and the period.
I hope this helps.