[XeTeX] A general suggetion for managing thefontselectionformixed-language document

[John Was]

I know about the U Chicago manual, and of course it's quite correct re Wow! 
As I said, the logic should be followed, and if 'Wow' is in italic, then 
obviously its accompanying exclamation mark must be in italic.  But it is 
eccentric in its advocation of the blanket rule (at sect. 5.4) that italic 
punctuation should follow an italic character.  This may be an Atlantic 
divide, of course:  after all, Americans typically put punctuation inside 
closing quotation marks as a blanket rule, in clear defiance of the logic, 
much to the chagrin of the Europeans (or at least the British) - I think 
Princeton go with British style, though (at least they did in the 3000 pages 
I set for them).  (Microsoft perpetuate the malpractice, regrettably.)

Best


John

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From: "Stephen Moye" <stephenmoye at mac.com>
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>
> On Sep 1, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Cyril Niklaus wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 1 sept. 07, at 23:31, John Was wrote:
>>>
>>> \/}\kern 0.05em :
>>>
>>> at the junction between italic and a following roman colon, for
>>> example.
>>
>> I've always wondered about this, but I usually just put the
>> following punctuation mark in italics as well, as it seems easier
>> to me. Is it actually wrong in terms of typography ?
>>
>>
>> Cyril
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> The _U. of Chicago Manual of Style_ says, twice (5.4 and 6.60), that
> punctuation should be in the same font as the letter(s) that
> immediately precede it. The exception is brackets and parentheses. So
> it should be \emph{Wow!} and not \emph{Wow}!
>
> Stephen Moye
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