Re: "xxx." or "xxx".

["Tony G. Rocco" <trocco -at- NAVIS -dot- COM>]

I thought this discussion had to do with the new xxx extension being
proposed for adult websites. Shows you where my mind is at!

- tgr

At 8:27 PM -0700 9/18/97, DIGEST Barbara Diorio wrote:


>Five technical writers, one office, two opinions.   When a sentence ends with
>a word in quotation marks, do you put the punctuation (period or comma - we
>agree on the other punctuation marks) inside the quotation marks or outside
>the quotation marks?  The various guides that we checked all indicated that
>1a and 2a (below) are correct, but some of the writers swear that they were
>taught to follow 1b and 2b.   What do you think?
>
>1a.   "Tell me what you think," said Barb.
>1b.   "Tell me what you think", said Barb.
>
>2a.    Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper."
>2b.    Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper".
>
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