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Italics markup is for non-emphasis purposes, such as for book titles and non-English language phrases, as detailed below. Emphasis may be used to draw attention to an important word or phrase within a sentence, when the point or thrust of the sentence may otherwise not be apparent to readers, or to stress a contrast:
The author adds the caveat that in certain instances a writer may want to use two spaces between sentences. The examples given are: when one space "may not provide a clear visual break between sentences", if an abbreviation is used at the end of a sentence, or when some very small proportional fonts (such as 10-point Times New Roman) are used.
If the quotation is a single word or a sentence fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside the closing quotation mark. When quoting a full sentence, the end of which coincides with the end of the sentence containing it, place terminal punctuation inside the closing quotation mark. Miller wanted, he said, "to create something timeless".
(Although the full sentence is not quoted, the sense of finality conveyed by the period is part of the quotation.) Please note that the above rules reflect British conventions and are generally not followed by American publishers. For example, the Associated Press Stylebook has the following under its guidelines about "quotation marks":
Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage provides an early example of the rule: "All signs of punctuation used with words in quotation marks must be placed according to the sense." [28] When dealing with words-as-words, short-form works and sentence fragments, this style places periods and commas outside the quotation marks:
The phrase not a cat is a parenthesis. My umbrella (which is somewhat broken) can still shield the two of us from the rain. The phrase which is somewhat broken is a parenthesis. Please, Gerald, come here! Gerald is both a noun of direct address and a parenthesis. People who eat broccoli are typically healthier—and happier—than people who don't.
Italics: Put in italics rom: Roman: Put in Roman (non-italic) font bf: Boldface: Put in boldface lc: Lower case: Put text in lower case caps: Capitalize: Put text in capital case sc: Small caps: Put text in small caps wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font wc/ww: word choice/wrong word: Incorrect or awkward word choice hr # Insert hair space ...
c one of a pair of curves — called also parenthesis, round bracket; d BRACE 6b; The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4/e confirms the cross-pond confusion. Definition 4 of "bracket" is: a) A square bracket, b) An angle bracket, and c) Mathematics. {}. Then definition 5 tells us: Chiefly British. One of a pair of ...