5 Oct
2011
5 Oct
'11
5:03 p.m.
On 05/10/11 5:17 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Do whatever you like online, but if you're typesetting, you should
follow proper typographic practice.
I don't recall seeing either case in any printed text. Also I never
heard of this "one closing parenthesis closes many opening parentheses"
convention. Do you have a citation?
--Toby
There are,
however SOME language rules that I CHOOSE to flagrantly break.
As do I. I do it conciously, because I feel the 'standard' rules obscure
meaning.
Those include comma before "and" in a
list, "LOGICAL" placement of
punctuation relative to quotation marks, arbitrary creation of plurals
In particular, I've been known to end a quotation with ` .". ' (that is 3
characters, a full stop, a double quote and another full stop). The
first full stop was part of the material I was quoting, the quotation
marks ended the quote and the second full stop ended the sentence I was
writing. (particularly with acronyms or other
capitaliation exceptions), certain
I also refuse to capitalise something that can never be capitalised, even
at the start of a sentence. Things like variable names, unix commands,
etc. Of course it's best not to start a sentence with soemthing like
that, but...
"creative" spelings, capitalization
for emphasis, nested parentheses,
etc.
I really object to the English conventions which state that a single
close parentesis closes an arbitrary number of oepn parentheses (and that
uou should never have 2 adjacent close parentheses in a piece of text). That oen makes it impossible to write accurate text in
some cases. Nor do
I like that idea that quotations (and parentheses) end at the end of a
paragrpah. Seeing a whole string of paragrpahs starting with open
quotation marks and never seeing any closing quotation marks drives me mad.
-tony