Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - By Ben Y... - 0 views
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Ryan Catalani on 13 May 11"According to Rosemary Feal, executive director of the MLA, [the American style] was instituted in the early days of the Republic in order 'to improve the appearance of the text. A comma or period that follows a closing quotation mark appears to hang off by itself and creates a gap in the line (since the space over the mark combines with the following word space).'" Ironically, though, this article only uses the "logical punctuation" style once - in the title.
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Lisa Stewart on 19 May 11I love it when punctuation marks fit neatly within the quotation. The opposite makes me feel strangely queasy...