Another simple question I can't find the answer to.

[rwsteward]

I looked in my copy of the CMS and i don't see the answer, so here goes.

When using italic text does the punctuation get italicized, too or just the text?

Do you include the quote marks, periods and whatnots or just the text?

"Look at the size of those!"

or

"Look at the size of those!"

The forum interface doesn't show much difference, but there is in Word.

If I'm going to do it, then I may as well do it correctly.

Later

 

[PacoFear]

99% sure you don't italicize the quotes, though I could find no citation in my CMS either. Whether you italicize the interior punctuation (periods, commas, etc.) raises a separate question: why are you italicizing the whole statement? If it's for emphasis, this is best avoided. CMS 7.49. If it's because it's unspoken discourse (thoughts and such), I think you're double bagging. Either italicize the thought or set it off in quotes with some sort of thought tag. CMS 11.47 I think the current CMS favors the latter, but I still see the former in published fiction.

 

[sr71plt]

The punctuation is rendered as the main or surrounding text.

Thus, with the exception of punctuation that goes with a title (e.g., the movie Help!), the punctuation is rendered in the font of the sentence it's serving (notice the parenthesis mark and comma after the song title here are in roman).

Chicago Manual of Style 6.2

 

[PacoFear]

Good one. Hadn't thought he might be using it as a title.

 

[lovecraft68]

The punctuation is rendered as the main or surrounding text.

Thus, with the exception of punctuation that goes with a title (e.g., the movie Help!), the punctuation is rendered in the font of the sentence it's serving (notice the parenthesis mark and comma after the song title here are in roman).

Chicago Manual of Style 6.2

The king of google strikes again. Type an OP's question into google along with CMS and let it rip.

Granted it took me about fifteen minutes, but I found the answer by keyword searching. Maybe I should be a qualified editor.

 

[sr71plt]

The king of google strikes again. Type an OP's question into google along with CMS and let it rip.

Granted it took me about fifteen minutes, but I found the answer by keyword searching. Maybe I should be a qualified editor.

Did you have a point other than demonstrating once again that you're an asshole?

rwsteward asked an editorial style question and I looked up the answer and gave it to him--from the print style manual, not google, incidentally (and a new edition isn't published yearly either, by the way). And you want to make something out of that?

You just reek of juvenile jealousy and bullying tactics.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Just a snowball from the tribunes.

Frequently authors use italics to describe past events. Publishers and the CMS agree that all the text should be in italics. Unless sr knows better, which is often true, I thought that passages in italics had to have punctuation in italics as well.