I've never known this, and just muddled through: How much underlining of nearby punctuation do you do?
Do these need correcting?
"Will you quit _now_?" [or does the ? get underlined too?]
_"It's about to explode!"_
"I served on the _Saratoga_."
Thanks--
Posted by dpatridge (Member # 2208) on :
i never underline punctuation... it just looks weird to me.
i'm probably not doing it right, but i don't particularly care.
Posted by Jules (Member # 1658) on :
The only one of your suggestions I would change is the second, which I would punctuate thus:
"_It's about to explode!_"
I include end punctuation if the entire sentence is italicised, but the quotation marks seem to me to be in a different context, so I would only italicise them if they were included themselves in text that was italicised:
_He said "tomorrow"._
[This message has been edited by Jules (edited January 14, 2005).]