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Subject:RE: Period at the end of a link or not? From:"Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:31:20 -0000
Honestly?
Will the experience your readers/users have change in either case? Probably
not.
Pick one method and be consistent. Either one, or let common sense dictate
when to use one or not, if the URL is at the end of a sentence, include a
period, if it's a stand-alone line, don't?
Gordon
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Subject: Period at the end of a link or not?
We are writing a "Getting Started Guide". There are a couple of sentences
with long links: i.e., to download XYZ, you can do it from here (of couse we
don't write here because it is a pdf and because we want the user to see the
path even if it is long).
My colleague thinks it should have a period at the end of the link to make
it a sentence and to be grammatically correct. Is this truly a grammatical
sentence? Here is an example. Period or no period?
Sometimes people copy and paste instead of clickng the link. So yes, it is
true, it is a PDF and not everybody has a way to copy it but I tend to think
that a period at the end of a path is an extra invitation to error.
What is your opinion regarding the issue.
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