Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/28A

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responding with <i>Ô</i> ("Yes" or "Amen") at the end of every
paragraph. It is as follows:--

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"<i>He[A] says: 'Hearken all ye assembled Kannushi and
Hafuri.'</i>

"<i>He says: 'I humbly declare in the presence of the Sovran
Gods, whose praises are fulfilled as Heavenly Deities and as
Earthly Deities, by command of the Sovran, dear, divine
ancestor and ancestress who divinely dwell in the Plain of
High-Heaven.</i>

"<i>'In the second month of this year the Sovran Grandchild
is graciously pleased to pray for harvest, and I, therefore, as
the morning sun rises in glory, offer up his plenteous offerings,
thus fulfilling your praise.' [Here the Kannushi and Hafuri
of the shrines concerned remove this set of offerings.]</i>
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Italicized paragraphs

This quotation is in italics, and continues for several pages. The double quotation marks form a container for that quotation, but are not part of what they contain, so they go outside the italics markups. However, the single quotation marks are part of the overall quotation, so they stay inside the markups.

Block quotes

Use Block Quote because of blank space above quotation, and italicize each paragraph separately.

Footnote references

"We never italicize footnote references." Well, almost never. Here, it just doesn't make sense to close and reopen paragraph-length markups just because of a footnote reference. But, you may want to leave a note. (This example doesn't show the actual footnote.)