RE: Period/comma then close quote, or vice versa?

Subject: RE: Period/comma then close quote, or vice versa?
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:55:43 -0400 (EDT)


They avoid it by using a different font for the quoted text instead of
quotation marks and by using layout, such as a colon preceding the text to
be typed and a new paragraph without punctuation for the text to be typed.



> Does anyone have a well-founded general impression of
> current common American practice in computer-related
> writing? Where are most computer-related American companies
> putting the period when the period is not part of the source
> being quoted? Inside the quotation marks anyway? Outside?
> Usually inside, but outside if there's a problem to avoid?
> Or are they dodging the issue-- by rewriting, setting the
> quoted material outside the sentence, etc.?

Bonnie Granat
www.GranatEdit.com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA


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