Coincidentally, yesterday was National Punctuation Day! :-)
http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
One of LACMA's fine editors, Jennifer Boynton, sent this answer about
punctuation after a URL (and also the National Punctuation Day alert!):
The most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) deals
with this and other URL issues in chapter 17 (paradigms 17.9 through
17.15).
The "period following the URL" issue is addressed in 17.10 ("URLs and
punctuation"), where they recommend including the period because: "Other
punctuation marks used following a URL will be readily perceived as
belonging to the surrounding text. It is therefore unnecessary to omit
appropriate punctuation after the URL..."
In other words, readers will understand that the period (or comma, or
whatever) is part of the sentence, not part of the URL.
Jennifer Boynton (via Diana Folsom)
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Timothy Atherton
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:48 PM
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also, plenty of fuel for your "discussion" here... :
http://history.memphis.edu/mcrouse/elcite.html
tim a
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of Christina DePaolo
Sent: Wed 9/24/2008 5:21 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] [MCN L] - Style guide for technical terms
Hi,
I have a question for you techy writers out there. Do any of you use or
know of a style guide for technical terms? We need it to resolve heated
arguments, such as whether or not a url should get a period if it is at
the end of a sentence.
We use to use one from Wired magazine but not sure it is the best
reference anymore. Is it? What do you use?
Thanks.
Christina DePaolo
New Media Manager
Seattle Art Museum
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