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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: em-dashes, ellipsis and English Usage (long)
Message-ID: <1128@sas.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 22:09:18 GMT
References: <65590@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <65736@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <28@nx32s.anduk.co.uk> <1188@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <30@nx32s.anduk.co.uk>
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In article <30@nx32s.anduk.co.uk> lee%anduk.UUCP@neat.ai.toronto.edu (Liam R. Quin) writes:
|| A quoted word or phrase less than a grammatically complete sentence
|| should not be followed by any punctuation (except a question mark,
|| exclamation mark or ellipsis) before the closing quotation mark, but the
|| punctuation of the main sentence, if any, should be placed outside the
|| quotation marks:
||    These writers are sometimes known as `the Romantics'.

It should be noted, however, that American usage is to place periods inside
the quotes even if they represent the outside sentence.  This is illogical
but, in my opinion, more pleasing to the eye.  (With most fonts--it looks
horrid, actually, with vertical quote marks.)  Of course, my eye was raised
mostly reading American typesetting . . .
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