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Italics for Non-English Words in Fiction - CMOS Shop Talk
| Italics for Non-English Words in Fiction - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of...Manual of Style Contact Join Italics for Non-English Words in Fiction Russell Harper / March 17, 2020...Switching to italics for the occasional word or phrase borrowed from another language—and not listed... |
Italics in Context Getting More from Word - CMOS Shop Talk
| Italics in Context: Getting More from Word - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual...Manual of Style Contact Join Italics in Context: Getting More from Word Chicago Manual / December 14..., 2021 Italics can be applied for various reasons, but it is always with the same goal: to mark text... |
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| Topic Q&A List Italics and Quotation Marks Display All Answers Q. Are reverse italics [i.e., roman...text in an otherwise italic context] used when a legal case includes names of newspapers that would...names and words like “University.” And though that example isn’t supposed to show the use of italics ... |
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| FAQ Item Italics and Quotation Marks Q. How do you show emphasis (and not with capital letters) in...“thought” that’s already in italics? A. If you must put thoughts in italics (italics are just one...option among several), emphasis is usually shown by “reverse italics,” like this: Does this mean no... |
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| FAQ Item Italics and Quotation Marks Q. Are reverse italics [i.e., roman text in an otherwise... italic context] used when a legal case includes names of newspapers that would normally be italicized on....” And though that example isn’t supposed to show the use of italics for case names (which in Bluebook... |
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| “the Ibis’s lower decks.” CMOS 8.116 says italics for the boat’s name; 6.2 specifies the use of... italics when the punctuation is part of the word. This seems a Talmudic moment. Thanks. A. Ah—although...the boat name is properly in italics, the apostrophe and s are not, because they are not actually part of the name. Please see CMOS 7.29. Shalom.... |
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| FAQ Item Italics and Quotation Marks Q. Should sounds made by animals or objects be italicized when... italics might have their place. Italics are common in fiction for unspoken discourse (as for a narrator’s...thoughts). Such italics signal to readers that the words come from somewhere other than the... |
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| quotation marks, roman without quotation marks, or italic? A. We put blog titles in italics. For examples... |
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| English. I’ve been following the convention of writing French words and phrases in italics and also...using italics for movie titles, book titles, etc. Now I come upon a French song title, and I can’t...phrases and sentences in quotation marks (no italics) and reserves italics for single words and very... |
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| FAQ Item Italics and Quotation Marks Q. Would you italicize “x” in a phrase like “x number of...dollars”? It seems like a variable, but I wasn’t sure if this casual use merited italics. A. When an...dollars” (with the letter x in italics). As you suggest, these letters act like variables, which in... |
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