On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:23:38AM GMT, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 08:31:00AM +0000, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Pretty straightforward - comma snuck in inside the quoted book title.
> 
> This is how I learned it. Myabe a bit old-fashinoed, but not wrong.
> 
>       -Otto

Hi Otto,

Unless I'm misunderstanding CMOS (i.e. american style), comma would
indeed be *inside* quotes, when we are actually "using" quotes,
i.e.  quoting text, or quotes are a part of a boot title itself.

Here, however, quotes are used *instead of* italics to represent
the book title itself, so, i.e. in print, they wouldn't be present
at all.

The below is a bibliographical reference (of sorts) so the comma
should merely separate the book title from the publisher.

Unfortunately, the finer details of CMOS are behind a paywall so I
can't confirm that categorically.

Chances are, I might be wrong, though. In which case, I'd appreciate
pointing me to the source :^)

Cheers,

Raf

> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Raf
> > 
> > Index: bin/ed/README
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ed/README,v
> > retrieving revision 1.5
> > diff -u -p -r1.5 README
> > --- bin/ed/README   15 Jun 2018 08:46:24 -0000      1.5
> > +++ bin/ed/README   17 Nov 2019 08:29:14 -0000
> > @@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ The ./test directory contains regression
> >  file in that directory explains how to run these.
> >  
> >  For a description of the ed algorithm, see Kernighan and Plauger's book
> > -"Software Tools in Pascal," Addison-Wesley, 1981.
> > +"Software Tools in Pascal", Addison-Wesley, 1981.
> > 

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