May I humbly suggest that many if not most typesetting types would say that a
comma that ends italic text SHOULD be set in italics as well.

To quote Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style:

With italic text, italic punctuation normally gives better letterfit and thus
looks less obtrusive. [Pg 60]

Best regards to all on the list (from someone who has been lurking here a long
time),

Bill Amatneek
Vineyards Press


> From: Andrew Brown <lists@c18.net>
> Subject: Italic commas CS4
> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:03:39 +0100
>
> I'm working on a 2000-page work and find that many of the commas
> following text in italic are in italic, when they should be roman.
> Often the following space is also in italic. I'm blaming Bill Gates
> for this, him and his wretched Word.
>
> Is there any alternative to running a series of search and replaces?
>
> ", " in italics becomes ", BLIP" with the BLIP in roman
> BLIP and following character in roman becomes PLIB and following
> character
> ", PLIB" becomes ", " in roman
> BLIP removed throughout
>
> and so on...
>
> What a pain Mr Gates, and what a pain Adobe...
>
> AB

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