Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/12/24/07:19:08
Hello.
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I thought "e.g." should be followed by a comma, but "i.e." should not
> (and thus requires @: in Texinfo).
I'd forgotten that we had some grammar books, so I had used the somewhat
unreliable web. The Oxford Library of English Usage, book III, has the
following entry:
"4. It is naturally proceeded by a stop; it should not be followed by a
comma unless the sense requires one, to introduce a parenthesis for
instance. /He attacked reactionaries, i.e. those whose opinions differed
from his own/, but /He attacked reactionaries, i.e., it would seem, those
whose opinions, etc./"
This is British English grammar, but I doubt (and hope) that American
English grammar is that different.
The second example, the one with the comma after "i.e.", doesn't seem like
a proper sentence to me.
I'll add a note about commas after "e.g." and @: after "i.e." to
develop.txi.
Thanks, bye, Rich =]
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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]
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