- From: Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:03:45 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
I don't know about US punctuation, but the rule in the UK as I understand it is this: a full stop occurs outside the bracket if the parenthesis is within a sentence, and inside the bracket if it's w hole sentence that is an aside: eg: Because of the accident I missed the meeting (which I hadn't been looking forward to anyway). and: Because of the accident I missed the meeting. (I hadn't been looking forward to it anyway.) it's an interesting issue though. I believe that (unlike italics) bold text doesn't influence attached punctuation. --- Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com> wrote: > This one could run and run, > I really shouldn't be writing to this list, but do > remember that UK and US > have different approaches (ie we put punctuation > outside brackets). ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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