Re: [s-d] Re: [auto] EugeneMeidinger submits p20

[Alex Truelsen <dichotomousmind@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/24/05, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > That convention always bugged me. There's no good reason to put the
> > period before the quotes anymore. Someday I'll want to create a
> > section whose title includes a period at the end, and I'll have to
> > include many extra words to do so >:(
> 
> I tend to just use periods outside quotes anyway, since it's generally
> clearer. But I work at a place that prints formal things such as
> wedding invitations, so I have to use the more formal rules there on
> things like our web site.


The rules are there for a reason. How else are we going to be kept trapped 
in the seventeenth century? 

It'd probably be just as easy to use double-curly-braces to delimit
> your title if you want to include a period in it.


Or __Title__, like we used to use, or at least I think we used to use. If we 
didn't use to use it, we should start having used to use it so we can 
retroactively resume using it as of yesterday.

See <http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html> for more
> about how 'hackers' write. :)


I also don't get fancy table manners. Why does anyone need more than one 
fork?

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