Library of Formatting Examples:Test Page/B

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Correctly formatted text

Operations, if planned to be conducted
for a long term of years and therefore
warranting the installation of large and
expensive plants, should be based upon
the holding of extensive ore-bearing
ground. Here enters the notion of the
<i>shape and size of a mining property</i>.

Partial sentences

Only part of the sentence is italicized, so the period goes outside the markups.

Why: We only place punctuation within in-line markups when the punctuation belongs to what needs to be marked. This period belongs to the entire sentence, not just to the part that is in italics.