Re: search/replace program

[WooF owlswick@xxxxxxxx]

I think the historical reason that periods and commas go indie
the quote marks is that, with old-fashioned letter-press
printing, the isolated period **following* a quote mark will be
pressed into the printed-on paper extra hard, with the risk that
the type face will be broken **or* the period will punnch a hold
in the printed-on paper. Current American practice simply follows
an old rule to avoid this problem.

George H Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Leslie Bialler wrote:

> As far as I can discern (and we do get copy from British authors from time
> to time): yes, the Brits seem to take the logical approach, but they tend
> to use single quotes where we'd use double, and the reverse, so maybe the
> aesthetics of it all are less of an issue on the other side of the
> Atlantic.
>
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