Re: highlighting and fontification

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>]

Florian> Florian Weimer <URL:mailto:fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>

0> In article <871zc2hdb9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>, Florian wrote:

Florian> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

>> * Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) on Fri, 10
>>   Sep 1999
>> | Americans emphasize like <em>this?</em>
>> | And Europeans emphasise like <em>this</em>?
>>
>> Pretty much.

Florian> Knuth writes in his TeXbook that this convention is changing
Florian> and he's recommending the latter, and he's following it in
Florian> his books (judging from a more-or-less random sample).

In the related case of whether quotation marks include punctuation[*],
Fowler recommends considering whether the punctuation is part of what's
quoted.  Compare

 - He asked, "What's happening?"

 - Who shouted "Fire"? [+]

[*] Particularly, whether the full stop, exclamation mark, or question
    mark at the end of the sentence is placed before or after the
    closing quotation mark.

[+] Hmm.  Perhaps that last should be, 'Who shouted "Fire!"?'?  :-)


Here's an actual quote from Fowler's 3rd ed.:

#> All signs of punctuation used with words in quotation marks must be
#> placed /according to sense/.  If an extract ends with a point or
#> exclamation or interrogation sign, let that point be included
#> before the closing quotation mark; but not otherwise.