On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:25:32AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > - parenthesis outside sentence. I think this is typographically > incorrect. Should be: > "...bas been collected (NOTE: this can take a long time).
When the parenthetical is a complete sentence in its own right, it's fine in English to put it outside the end-of-sentence punctuation. > - uppercase "NOTE". I tend to discourage this just like all all-caps > words > Indeed, I tend to discourage "NOTE", "WARNING", etc in texts shown > to users > Maybe just : > "...has been collected (which can take a long time)". But this is better anyway in this case. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
