Vanity - Need Newspaper Article Coding Info

[savedbygrace]

I'm submitting an article for publication in a local newspaper, and I need to know the accepted coding for italics. In other words, I have a section that I want to be printed in italics.

I was thinking to enclose that section between (italics) (close italics). Right? If not, what's correct?

Thanks.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Type <
then i
then >
then your text
then <
then /
then i
then >
that should do it.

[1rudeboy]

I would italicize the section, and enclose an attached note to the editing staff describing your request. If you wish that a large block of text be italicized, they might shoot you down regardless.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Also try "html" as a word search, or just go here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1551906/posts

[savedbygrace]

Thanbk you for the reply. HTML coding will not come across the online text submission. I'm asking for traditional codes that were used even with typewritten submissions years ago.

[synbad600]

What do you charge an hour to teach otherwise intelligent people how to navigate/post/italicize/ etc.? Basicly, I need a lesson in FReepology.

[savedbygrace]

Thank you. Any HTML coding gets stripped by the online text submission, so it won't be italicised when it reaches the managing editor. I don't want look like the nimnull I am by calling and asking him.

I'm looking for the coding that news people have used for many years to indicate italics in their copy. But your caution that they might not honor a request for a large block of italicized print is good to know.

This is two paragraphs from an online article. In these two paragraphs, the author uses a number a quoted sentences and phrases, so I'm trying to take the easy way out of a confusing mix of quotes and apostrophes. I want to make it clear that those two paragraphs are not mine. I am also providing a link and a clear statement of who wrote those paragraphs. It certainly qualifies as fair use, so I'm not worried about that issue.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'd be the wrong body to ask that. Now anything in the laboring line of ordinary working class filth would be another matter...

[synbad600]

How are you at home repairs? Here in FL I have some renovations going on and I find the workmenship to be on the not very attentive-to-detail side, compared to my experiences in mid-state NY. As this is the first time I've ever done this type of thing I find all the things I failed ask are now common sense, but. How "perfect" do things have to be? Is there room for a slighty crooked, but entirely functional, door? Not to mention other irregular but only-noticable-to-me type of flaws?

[SAJ]

Speaking as a professional writer, the smartest thing to do is to ask the newspaper exactly what style book and/or convention(s) they prefer. Believe me, a finished article marked up in one style can be perfectly acceptable to publisher A, but simultaneously utterly unacceptable to publisher B ... and you've no way of knowing which is the case a priori unless you ask.

This may not be relevant, but one old publisher's text styling convention was

/beg:property -- to indicate the start of a text property (boldface, italic, newfont, etc.), and

/end:property -- to indicate a return to standard (or 'default', these days).

Of course, this convention dates back to the 1970's and is likely obsolete now. It does, however, meet any editor's requirements for clarity and transparancy.

Best wishes on your writing!

[savedbygrace]

Thank you very much. I'll swallow hard and call, as you suggest.