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What -- quotes straddling punctuation? I don't know if it's "an American thing" but, as a resident of the USA, I find it "a stupid thing". Note my period outs
by apotheon 16y ago
What -- quotes straddling punctuation?
I don't know if it's "an American thing" but, as a resident of the USA, I find it "a stupid thing". Note my period outside the quotes.
Periods go inside quotes, in my world at least, when the quoted text originally included either a comma or period at the point where the quotation ends. Otherwise, the period goes outside the quotes, because putting it inside the quotes makes it an inaccurate quote.
Damned journalistic typesetters are idiots.
- mfukar 16y ago> What -- quotes straddling punctuation? Yup. I haven't seen it in Europe, and I also find it stupid.
- bertil 16y agoActually, it’s like the two-space after periods, replacing a longer space: it's a workaround when typesetting does not collapse punctuations. The dot should be below the outer edge of the quotes, otherwise you have too much diagonal white space — not unlike upper-case A and V should be set closer.