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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)
• References: <485ABA5D.1040404@blocked.org>
• 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
>



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