Re: style questions

Subject: Re: style questions
From: Bonni Graham <bonnig -at- AOL -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 12:29:04 EDT

Mike Pope notes:
"By convention, as enforced by the
bow-your-head-when-you-say-its-name-Chicago Manual of Style, periods and
commas go inside the quotes, regardless. "

Actually, not any more (thank whatever you believe in for miracles). Chicago
14 allows punctuation outside the quotation marks. Yay -- they've caught up
with reality!

For my two cents, am easier convention is to use bold, or even a keypress
font if you have one available. Then the quote confusion is a moot point.
Plus I've had users type the quotes.

Bonni Graham
Manual Labour
President, San Diego STC
BonniG -at- aol -dot- com


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