From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 1:55:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACFE37B8B9 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 01:55:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA59343; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:55:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: fcash@bigfoot.com Cc: Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions References: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Jun 2000 10:55:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Freddie Cash"'s message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:01:40 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Freddie Cash" writes: > > > > I'll certainly try to remember this in my future emails. > > > I trust you already noticed that English doesn't share the French > > > habit of putting a space before '?' and '!'? > This may just be for Canadian French, but in my 13 years of study and > use, I've never seen a space before a '?' or a '!' or any other > punctuation mark. French typography rules require a narrow space in front of question and exclamation marks as well as colon and semi-colon, at least when using proportional-width fonts. I don't know if the same rule applies to monospace fonts. > I do find it very annoying how they use '---' (em- > dash) or '>>' marks instead of quotations marks in novels. > > As for the different `opening and closing' marks, what was the point to > those?? I always found them to be very annoying and to break the flow of > the type. ``just looks wrong'' They wouldn't if you'd grown up with them. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message