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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 01:20:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/38283: Missing period in section 2.9.11 of the Handbook
Message-ID:  <200205200820.g4K8K3234631@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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.
 
 Marc

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