On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> Even the American English "rule" of placing all punctuation inside
> quotation marks is a _typographical convention_ that stems from the
> early days of movable type, when the period and comma were the most
> fragile pieces of type and were prone to breaking off in the press.
OK, this is interesting. I always thought that it was both aesthetically
ugly and illogical to place punctuation marks inside quotes. The belong
on the outside, unless it belongs to the quote itself.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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