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Subject:Re: bold the colon? From:Diane Williams <diane_williams -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Chuck <writer -at- best -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed. pp. 158-159) says, yes, you should
generally apply the same style of emphasis to the punctuation following
the words emphasized--except for underlining. Compare with and without.
Your eye will tell you.
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