On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:24:37PM -0500, Benjamin
Goldberg wrote:

Ragun P. Moody wrote:
[snip]

building, the small bronze plaque by the door

proclaiming "Dante," the

only

        $proclaiming 'Dante', the

Actually, the comma being inside of the quotes is

correct english.

Onlyfor computer programming does the comma goes

outside :)

Or are you suggesting '' instead of "" ?  For that,

too, I think that

[snip]

It's actually a style issue, but here's what's
traditionally used:

UK english:

...proclaiming "Dante", the...

[but single quotes for dialogue!]

US english:

...proclaiming "Dante," the...

as written.

given your setting and the way you're spelling stuff,
i'm going to assume you want US english. many american
publishers think this is an unbreakable rule rather
than a style issue, so you should go with that (i.e.
what you wrote) if you intend to have this published.

            "Still, I couldn't very well keep em

out, what with the

boss's girlfriend and all."  He sighed.  "What's

the world coming to

these days?  When an angel is sleeping with a

succubus?  Give me the

old days, when you could always keep the players

straight."

  $Little homophobia there?  There's nothing wrong

with a little kink.

I don't think his problem is the girl-girl aspect of

the relationship,

but rather the angel-demon aspect of the

relationship.

i got the impression 'straight' meant as in "keep
[...] straight" i.e. for thor not to end up so
confused by the whole situation.

            Lipton just nodded dumbly as he

reclipped his gun.  "I can

sympathize... Believe me..."

[snip]

i thought the same thing [as above] here as it's
consistent to his later reactions in this chapter.

-- 
print reverse( ",rekcah", " lreP", " rehtona", "

tsuJ" )."\n";

i'd include my .sig here, but mozilla doesn't want to paste.

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