Re: "xxx." or "xxx".

Subject: Re: "xxx." or "xxx".
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:39:05 -0700

>Five technical writers, one office, two opinions. When a sentence ends with
>a word in quotation marks, do you put the punctuation (period or comma - we
>agree on the other punctuation marks) inside the quotation marks or outside
>the quotation marks? The various guides that we checked all indicated that
>1a and 2a (below) are correct, but some of the writers swear that they were
>taught to follow 1b and 2b. What do you think?
>
>1a. "Tell me what you think," said Barb.
>1b. "Tell me what you think", said Barb.
>
>2a. Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper."
>2b. Each fix is moved to the restricted area by a "gatekeeper".
>
1a & 2a are US convention; 1b & 2b are UK convention.
--Wayne
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