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Re: Patch: Documenting tools necessary for GCC [take 2]


Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:09:25AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> > +In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
>> > +installed because portions of the Ada frontend are written in Ada (with
>> > +GNAT extensions.)
>> 
>> Is this American typography (and thus correct) or should the full stop
>> come after the closing parenthesis?
>
> I was under the impression that even American typograph requires the
> full stop after the closing parenthesis in this case, and that it's only
> quotation marks which are placed on the outside of the full stop.

I was taught that the full stop goes inside the closing parenthesis if
and only if the parentheses enclose one or more full sentences.

zw


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