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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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