Date: 02 Jun 2000 10:55:37 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: fcash@bigfoot.com Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions Message-ID: <xzpya4o7986.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Freddie Cash"'s message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:01:40 -0700" References: <3936A504.9741.9963DB1@localhost>
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"Freddie Cash" <fcash@bigfoot.com> 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
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