In AP Style, the Chicago Manual of Style, and the NY Times style guide, the quotation marks always go outside the period.
> On Feb 28, 2018, at 1:08 PM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > On 2/28/2018 09:27, Igor PDML-StR wrote: >> Christine, >> Thanks for your comment. I agree with most of what you said, except >> for the style issue that John has also commented on (below). I >> actually did not remember that Strunk & White had it defined, so, I >> was relying just on the common sense: you don't need to >> revert/invert/turn you head around or jump on one foot to match the >> order in the caption to that in the photo. Any style that says >> differently is impractical and inefficient. >> In my work I've dealt with several different styles, primarily those >> that technical journals use. The most prominent ones include American >> Institute of Physics (AIP) style and IEEE style. I tend to think that >> the initial idea of any of those styles is to provide a (standard) >> tool for effective (and often efficient) communication. The problem, >> however, is where some provisions and rules (often stale and >> outdated, or sometimes purely historical, based on no practical >> consideration) are inefficient or illogical, and the style >> Cerberus[es] refuse to update those. [*] >> 2-3 years ago, I've head a discussion with the chief editor of one of >> the IEEE journals on the style used in that journal. He actually >> agreed to the fact that some provisions were not the most efficient. >> IIRC, he even agreed to change some that were not dictated by the >> IEEE style, but said he couldn't change those that are "inherited" >> from the umbrella IEEE style. >> ========== [*] One vivid example is the "illogical" quotation marks: >> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2011/05/the_rise_of_logical_punctuation.html >> > > Whose period is it? Does it belong to the person being quoted or does > it belong to the person doing the quoting? > > If the quoted text ends with a period, the period goes inside the > quotation marks; if it doesn't, the period goes outside. > > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
