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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org>
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Subject: Re: docs/38283: Missing period in section 2.9.11 of the Handbook
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:20:03AM -0700, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/38283; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org>
> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: docs/38283: Missing period in section 2.9.11 of the Handbook
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:11:47 +0200
> 
>  On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:00:29AM +0000, Dima Dorfman wrote:
>  > I think this is correct as it is.  U.S. convention is to put closing
>  > punctuation inside the quote.  Although this isn't always followed,
>  > especially in technical documents where "dd." and "dd" may mean
>  > different things, I don't think I've seen any reasons to duplicate
>  > punctuation like you suggest above.
>  
>  It's just not the full stop of the sentence, the "!" is from a message
>  displayed on the screen, the punctuation of that message shouldn't
>  override the punctuation of the sentence.

You're correct, I think.

I was going to reply and say the same as Dima did, but then I saw the '!' is
inside the quotation.

Ceri

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