[9front] Re: Troff ms srefs, weird commata

[magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org]

sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de> writes:

> It makes sense to follow the same rules in quoting. In German we have
> this: use the punctuation from the quote (eg. "Some text," or "some
> text?"), if there is none and you need it, place it outside (eg. "Some
> text", or "some text"?).

That WOULD make more sense, but that's not how we do it in English.  :(

> In the footnotes the title doesn't end with punctuation, so in German
> it would be "Title", almost always (except the title ends with
> something, then it would also contain it: "title?", bla).

You misunderstundhtme.  I think you're confusing footnotes with
endnotes/bibliography.  When you typeset a footnote, it should come
after any adjacent punctuation, including quotation marks, like this:

  Sirjofri says, "The worst language is English."[1]

as opposed to this:

  Sirjofri asks, "Is the best language Lojban[2]?"

or, worse yet, this:

  Did Sirjofri just say, "Toki Pona[3]"?