I'll keep that in mind if I'm ever called upon to write for any of
those organizations or publications.
On 2/28/2018 14:06, Paul Stenquist wrote:
In AP Style, the Chicago Manual of Style, and the NY Times style
guide, the quotation marks always go outside the period.
On Feb 28, 2018, at 1:08 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/28/2018 09:27, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Christine, Thanks for your comment. I agree with most of what you
said, except for the style issue that John has also commented on
(below). I actually did not remember that Strunk & White had it
defined, so, I was relying just on the common sense: you don't
need to revert/invert/turn you head around or jump on one foot to
match the order in the caption to that in the photo. Any style
that says differently is impractical and inefficient. In my work
I've dealt with several different styles, primarily those that
technical journals use. The most prominent ones include American
Institute of Physics (AIP) style and IEEE style. I tend to think
that the initial idea of any of those styles is to provide a
(standard) tool for effective (and often efficient)
communication. The problem, however, is where some provisions and
rules (often stale and outdated, or sometimes purely historical,
based on no practical consideration) are inefficient or
illogical, and the style Cerberus[es] refuse to update those.
[*] 2-3 years ago, I've head a discussion with the chief editor
of one of the IEEE journals on the style used in that journal. He
actually agreed to the fact that some provisions were not the
most efficient. IIRC, he even agreed to change some that were not
dictated by the IEEE style, but said he couldn't change those
that are "inherited" from the umbrella IEEE style. ========== [*]
One vivid example is the "illogical" quotation marks:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2011/05/the_rise_of_logical_punctuation.html
Whose period is it? Does it belong to the person being quoted or does
it belong to the person doing the quoting?
If the quoted text ends with a period, the period goes inside the
quotation marks; if it doesn't, the period goes outside.
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