Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 09/10/2015 09:08, Guenter Milde a écrit :
Besides checking everything that may go wrong, remember that the
second most important part of the job is to say "no"! And that's not
the easiest part.
Out of curiosity, what French typography dictates for a punctuation
sign
after a double quote? Shouldn't it be inside the quotes? 8-)
Isn't this an English peculiarity? I can't remember seeing
end-of-phrase punctuation marks within quotes in any other language...
I just looked up the French convention. It is the same.
JMarc
I would *strongly* advise against this for technical/scientific writing.
Probably those people who wrote the style guides do not have much of a
clue when it comes to being precise.
Consider this phrase:
To delete a line in vim, enter "dd".
If you write this as
To delete a line in vim, enter "dd."
then your victim will end up deleting two lines every time.
IMNSHO this rule is total garbage. Quotes should precisely include the
quotes part, no more, no less. But then again, I am a scientist. ;-)
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Regards,
Cyrille Artho - http://artho.com/
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot,
are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
-- George Gordon Noel Byron
