Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/20A

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press" do not mind lying a little upon a pinch. [See Walter's
"Times" of Tuesday last, for the following: "<i>Mr. Cobbett
has thrown open the front of his house at Kensington, where he
proposes to sell meat at a reduced price.</i>"] What I said was this:

Quotation marks

The quotation marks are containers and go outside the markups. But, where does that period go? The quotation is a complete sentence within another sentence, and there's only one period, so it belongs to the "inner" sentence (the one in italics), so the period goes inside the markups.

This "ownership" notion also applies when the last word of a non-italicized sentence is an italicized abbreviation such as "etc." In that situation, the period, which belongs to the abbreviation, must stay with it, and go inside the tags.