Re: Punctuation Revisionism

Subject: Re: Punctuation Revisionism
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 14:39:31 -0700

At 02:11 PM 7/2/97 -0700, Ernie Tamminga wrote:

>In a quotation that isn't a computer command, if the quotation is a
>complete sentence -- and if it ALSO ends the sentence in which the
>quotation is being used -- then I put the concluding period inside the
>quotation marks.
>
>Like so:
> Henry said his new pillow is "very soft".
> Henry said, "my new pillow is very soft."
>
>These are my own stylistic choices, and they're not conventions that I
>would "enforce" within my group, except for the one about not-enclosing
>a comma when quoting a computer command unless the comma is actually
>part of the command.
>
I've always used a different typeface for commands to eliminate the marks
completely.

--Wayne
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