Caryl, You sent your email to iaep-request, which isn't the actual IAEP mailing list, so I'm quoting your mail entirely in my reply:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 18:12, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi... > Well, I followed my own advice and ordered a fresh copy of Strunk and > White's "The Elements of Style." The price has gone up since my first copy > many years ago (about $1.25). Now it lists for $9.95, but is worth every > penny. It arrived by FedEx 2 day from Amazon this afternoon. > > All this brings me to the controversy that really bothered me for the book > sprint last summer, punctuation with quotation marks. I was "raised" on the > "American" style and had to use it when writing for publication in > newspapers and magazines. There is a wikipedia article about this here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Punctuation > > Last summer, we followed more of the "British" style discussed in the above > article. I really had to grit my teeth for that, but did it anyway. > > This summer, it really doesn't matter to me which style we use, just so we > all use the same one, which seems to be the British style (unless someone > changes it). > As a technical publication, I personally prefer that we use "Logical Quotations", to avoid any ambiguity in meaning. Strings are First Class Objects, and shouldn't be tainted with superfluous punctuation, IMHO. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc
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