Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/00B

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2. <i>Gross interest must be distinguished from net interest.</i>
The forms of wealth yielding incomes are so mutable, and
are used under such complicated conditions, that both in

Complete Sentences

The Formatting Guidelines say to place punctuation outside of inline markup tags "unless the markup is around an entire sentence."

Throughout these examples, we will use the term "complete sentence" to refer to any stand-alone, independent clause, even if it doesn't contain both a subject and a predicate. In this example, the complete sentence is in italics, so its period goes inside the markup tags.