On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:32:02 +0100, Mike
Barnard <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On 20 Apr 2007 22:54:40 -0700, JW <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>Economist's style guide

> Nice link, thanks. Bookmarked. But I've been wondering lately,
> (because I use these far too much). Where, when a set of brackets is
> used, does one put the full stop?

> Here I say a load of junk. (More here.) More here.
> or
> Here I say a load of junk. (More here). More here.

> I think the first is technically correct, but the second 'looks' right
> to me. Can't see it in the style guide.

My style (of which you will find many examples in this nudesgrope)
is to put the full-stop after a parenthetical phrase which is part of a
sentence, but include the period within the brackets for a full, but
parenthesised, sentence. (If you see what I mean.)

> Pedantic's ahoy!

Silly buoy!

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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
<(E-Mail Removed)> saying something like:

>> Pedantic's ahoy!
>
>Silly buoy!

Left hand down a bit.
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:24:05 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
<(E-Mail Removed)> squeezed out the following:

>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dr Ivan D. Reid"
><(E-Mail Removed)> saying something like:
>
>>> Pedantic's ahoy!
>>
>>Silly buoy!
>
>Left hand down a bit.

IIRC Michael Green's definition of a coarse sailor was one who in an
emergency shouts "for God's sake turn left!".

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