RE: Using Punctuation in and out of Quotes

["Cheyne, Andrew" <Andrew -dot- Cheyne -at- vicorp -dot- com>]

In many circumstances you can't rely on the typeface alone. To a reader not
versed in the finer points of typography, punctuation marks in different
fonts can look very similar. I don't think I could tell the difference
between full stops (which might quite legitimately come at the end of UNIX
paths, for example) even in two very dissimilar fonts such as Courier and
Times.

-----Original Message-----
>You could avoid this entire problem by changing the font instead of using
quotes. 
>We ended up doing this because for instructions on entering specific pieces
of 
>information into fields. We were worried that people might think the comma
was 
>part of the string they needed to enter....so we use Courier to indicate
information 
>users are supposed to put in. No more confusion with commas. Or maybe I'm
just 
>missing the point of the thread. Who knows. I've had bad luck with my
software all 
>day and I'm in a funky mood. :-)

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