In reply to Brackets in Baskerville (MT) Italic:
Hm. First of all, though some people, like myself, prefer bracketed ellipses, this is not conventional in English. Also, if you're using the brackets, it would be more traditionally correct to use roman brackets even in italic text, though that might only exacerbate the problem in your eyes. I wouldn't worry about it too much. A much larger problem for me is the footnote number after the attribution — that looks a bit ugly, and there's probably a way around placing a number there.
