From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 11 23: 7: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABADB37BA87 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 23:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 82672 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2000 06:06:37 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 12 Jun 2000 06:06:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 2930 invoked by uid 211); 12 Jun 2000 05:04:34 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:34:33 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <20000612103433.A2908@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: David Kelly , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006120121.UAA86478@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006120121.UAA86478@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:21:14PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly said on Jun 11, 2000 at 20:21:14: > Tim Vanderhoek writes: > > On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:11:07AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > > > And who introduced the bizarre concept of repeating the opening > > > > marks at every new paragraph? Just looks wrong. > > > > Disagree strongly. I find the repeated set of opening quote marks > > particularly useful when reading newspaper articles that include long > > quote sections. One person's quoted opinion could (all-the-more) > > easily mutate into official printed word if it weren't for the > > repeated marks. > > What really bugs me is the tendancy to open the quote but not bother > with the closing quote mark on the paragraph. Then opening again at the > start of the next. But that would suggest two different people speaking. That's how you normally denote a conversation in books, rather than a "he said/she said" in every paragraph. I think the conventions are fine the way they are. By the way what's the convention on brackets extending across paragraphs? I have seen the same thing done there -- the opening bracket at the beginning of the next paragraph but no closing bracket at the end of the previous paragraph -- it looks extremely odd, though it makes as much sense as the quote convention. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message