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Subject:Re: Parentheses with other Punctuation - Question From:"M. Dannenberg" <midannen -at- SI -dot- BOSCH -dot- DE> Date:Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:57:07 +0100
> An example of what I am interested in would involve multiple sentences
> within the parentheses. An example might be
>
> Text text text text (Text text text. Text text text. Text text text.) text
> text text.
>
Wild stuff. Written by somebody who thinks English is just like C++, no
doubt. I usually simply flatten the structure, in this case take the
sentences in brackets and insert them behind the main one. In 90% of all
cases that is all that's required to fix a mess like that.
Mike
Mike Dannenberg
Technical Writer
ETAS GmbH & Co.KG
midannen -at- si -dot- bosch -dot- de
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