An almost pathologically fastidious absence of mistakenly italicized periods and commas following italicized phrases.
Not sure I've had a higher professional honor than when an author tonight told me (surely not by way of compliment), "You are a grammarian-philosopher," after my two-paragraph explanation on why I objected to adding commas to a sentence.
My argument was that what may appear to be restrictive appositives in fact should be treated grammatically as nonrestrictive appositives when their restrictiveness depends on a posteriori knowledge.
