Logical punctuation

[claidheamhmor]

Ever wondered whether punctuation goes inside quotes, or outside? I've always used it outside, because that seemed logically, but I gather the US preferred it inside. Well, here's an article discussing it:

The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

Comments

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

Interesting article, I'm actually forwarding it to my colleagues. I know our magazine uses the inside method and it makes sense to do so. The article points out some valid situations where the inside method would change the meaning of the quote... something to ponder.

[claidheamhmor]

That's always what bothered me - I figured that anything in the quotes had to be verbatim, and adding punctuation would be changing that.