Re: Re: Footnote numbers
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- Subject: [mg89832] Re: [mg89800] Re: Footnote numbers
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at att.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:22:34 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: drmajorbob at longhorns.com
I agree, the period is not quoted, and the "official" way is dumb. True, John's sentence had a period if it were written separately and I'd now leave it out, but otherwise where's my own stop? It's MY sentence now, not John's! Surely we don't want: Jonh said "Hello.". Bobby On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:28:27 -0500, <doug at hcsw.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:58:21PM -0500 or thereabouts, eddie wrote: >> Current: >> This sentence has a reference#. >> >> Chicago Manual of Style: >> This sentence has a reference.# > > Interesting. FWIW, Let Over Lambda uses "#." . I figure that the > footnote is part of the sentence so should appear before the full > stop. I also disagree with the convention of including the stop > inside quotation marks. > > Official way: John said "hello." > My way: John said "hello". > > IMO, the stop is not part of the quotation, it is part of the sentence. > But maybe programming has warped my mind here. :) > > Doug > -- DrMajorBob at longhorns.com
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