Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage Systems) at Living Computer, Museum,

No, I disagree (and this was precisely my point). Many of the typesetting rules are governed by aesthetics -- what looks 'right' on the page. The sort of things I write are designed to convey information, and doing that unambiguously is important. Suppose I write : The Forth command line to display the product of 3 and 4 is "3 4 * ." Now, is that '.' part of the command line, or is it just the end of the sentence? Actually, it's the former. It's a Forth word to remove the number of the top of the stack and print it. But if I write The Forth command line to display the product of 3 and 4 is "3 4 * .". Then the extra '.' at the end is clearly the end of the sentence, meaning the one before the quotation mark is part of the command. As I am sure you're aware, common punctuation marks have special meanings in many programming languages. It's important to be clear whether they are part of the command/programming example or part of the text. Chanign font (or using boldfce, etc) can help, but it's not all that clear (and is not possible on some output devices anyway). I'd rather my docuemation conveyed the infromation, even if it doens't look quite as nice. -tony