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If you are writing in something where italics are unavailable like a tag excerpt on StackExchange, should you put quotation marks around the name of longer works that would normally be italicized? Buzz said you shouldn't in Chat on Sci-Fi and I couldn't find anything either way.










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If you are writing in something where italics are unavailable like a tag excerpt on StackExchange, should you put quotation marks around the name of longer works that would normally be italicized? Buzz said you shouldn't in Chat on Sci-Fi and I couldn't find anything either way.










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  • Whatever works. There is no "rule" that covers all scenarios (or even most of them).

    – Hot Licks
    1 hour ago











  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's better suited on Writing.SE.

    – JJJ
    6 mins ago



















  • Whatever works. There is no "rule" that covers all scenarios (or even most of them).

    – Hot Licks
    1 hour ago











  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's better suited on Writing.SE.

    – JJJ
    6 mins ago

















Whatever works. There is no "rule" that covers all scenarios (or even most of them).

– Hot Licks
1 hour ago





Whatever works. There is no "rule" that covers all scenarios (or even most of them).

– Hot Licks
1 hour ago













I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's better suited on Writing.SE.

– JJJ
6 mins ago





I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's better suited on Writing.SE.

– JJJ
6 mins ago










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