From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15759 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2021 05:11:27 -0000 Received: from 1ess.inri.net (216.126.196.35) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 22 Feb 2021 05:11:27 -0000 Received: from icebubble.org ([174.136.103.210]) by 1ess; Mon Feb 22 00:03:21 -0500 2021 Received: from petunia by icebubble.org with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1lE3U5-0006sp-5W for 9front@9front.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:10:13 +0000 Received: from rusat by cmarib.ramside with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1lDHjw-0002jS-EM for 9front@9front.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:11:24 +0000 From: magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org To: 9front@9front.org References: <6639829C-9DCE-4620-A9E7-82995764E64C@gmail.com> <867dn461xb.fsf@cmarib.ramside> <888eed48-c100-4002-a3e1-699a06d8ad0e@sirjofri.de> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 02:11:24 +0000 In-Reply-To: <888eed48-c100-4002-a3e1-699a06d8ad0e@sirjofri.de> (sirjofri's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:18:39 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: <867dn3v67n.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: encrypted non-blocking software-scale framework Subject: [9front] Re: Troff ms srefs, weird commata Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk sirjofri 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]"?