Move period outside quotation marks in ```INTEGER-F```?

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Move period outside quotation marks in ```INTEGER-F```? #33

Open eriktorbjorn opened 5 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago

>EXAMINE FIVE
(Use figures for numbers, for example "10.")

To me, it would look better if it said (Use figures for numbers, for example "10".) i.e. if the "." is not part of the quoted text.

arcanetrivia commented 3 years ago

This is a matter of style. I have heard that American usage tends to prefer such punctuation inside the quotes while British/European usage prefers it outside. Personally I agree with you, but I think this is not an error.

eriktorbjorn commented 3 years ago

Maybe you're right. The current behavior is consistent with e.g. this one:

>COMPARE GUN
Oops! Try typing "COMPARE IT TO (something)."

I guess it looked stranger to me when it was a very short text like "10." than it did with the longer one.