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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Unfortunately, this is typographically incorrect.  Punctuation
> should have the same typographical features as the text it abuts.

I don't know what `abuts' means.  But I always thought the rule was if
the whole sentence (or sub-sentence) is italic, the punctuation should
be italic, too, but if only one word is italic, any punctuation
directly before or after that word shouldn't be italic?

This is off-topic, but...

kai
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