From: Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu>
Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification
Date: 10 Sep 1999 12:32:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vuolnaeg22e.fsf@csa.bu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:27:05 GMT"
Kai Großjohann writes:
: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
:: Unfortunately, this is typographically incorrect. Punctuation
:: should have the same typographical features as the text it abuts.
: I don't know what `abuts' means. But I always thought the rule was if
: the whole sentence (or sub-sentence) is italic, the punctuation should
: be italic, too, but if only one word is italic, any punctuation
: directly before or after that word shouldn't be italic?
That's how I've always understood it too.
-Emerick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-10 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 17:51 Daniel Monjar
1999-09-09 21:55 ` Jack Vinson
1999-09-09 22:34 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-09-10 15:35 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 16:24 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-10 16:32 ` Emerick Rogul [this message]
1999-09-10 18:29 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-10 19:01 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-12 5:16 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-09-13 9:17 ` Michael Piotrowski
1999-09-13 18:32 ` Florian Weimer
1999-09-13 21:46 ` Mick Gower
1999-09-15 22:13 ` Edward J. Sabol
1999-09-19 2:56 ` Greg Stark
1999-09-25 0:47 ` Ken McGlothlen
1999-10-05 1:40 ` François Pinard
1999-10-05 14:13 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-10-05 22:49 ` Russ Allbery
1999-10-06 0:45 ` David Coe
1999-09-14 12:33 ` Toby Speight
1999-09-14 8:24 ` Tibor Simko
1999-09-11 1:44 ` Rene H. Larsen
1999-09-11 7:06 ` Graham Murray
1999-09-12 5:05 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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