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Re: typestyle of punctuation

** Reply to message from Patricia M Godfrey  on Sat, 30 Mar
2002 14:02:12 -0500


> The general rule in publishing in
> the US has been periods and commas inside quotation marks...

I've never understood the rationale for this. For example, if I quote you on
the matter of "periods and commas inside", it absolutely defies logic and
violates accuracy that the last-previous comma in the present sentence should go
before the terminal quotation mark (unless of course the comma were actually
part of the quotation, which it isn't). What's the reasoning?

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Robert Holmgren
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