4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
4:25 p.m.
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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