Bug 38283

Summary: Missing period in section 2.9.11 of the Handbook
Product: Documentation Reporter: Marc Fonvieille <marc>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Marc Fonvieille 2002-05-19 11:40:01 UTC 
Missing period in section 2.9.11 of the Handbook. Read the patch below
for more details.

Fix: Apply the patch to handbook/install/chapter.sgml
Comment 1 Dima Dorfman 2002-05-20 09:00:29 UTC 
Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org> wrote:
> --- chapter.sgml.org	Sun May 19 11:31:25 2002
> +++ chapter.sgml	Sun May 19 12:23:27 2002
> @@ -3897,7 +3897,7 @@
>  
>  	  <para>The screen will go blank for a short period of time and
>  	    then a screen will appear with the message
> -	    <quote>Congratulations, you've got a running server!</quote></para>
> +	    <quote>Congratulations, you've got a running server!</quote>.</para>

I think this is correct as it is.  U.S. convention is to put closing
punctuation inside the quote.  Although this isn't always followed,
especially in technical documents where "dd." and "dd" may mean
different things, I don't think I've seen any reasons to duplicate
punctuation like you suggest above.
Comment 2 Marc Fonvieille 2002-05-20 09:11:47 UTC 
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:00:29AM +0000, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> I think this is correct as it is.  U.S. convention is to put closing
> punctuation inside the quote.  Although this isn't always followed,
> especially in technical documents where "dd." and "dd" may mean
> different things, I don't think I've seen any reasons to duplicate
> punctuation like you suggest above.

It's just not the full stop of the sentence, the "!" is from a message
displayed on the screen, the punctuation of that message shouldn't
override the punctuation of the sentence.

Marc
Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-26 00:11:14 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The added period properly terminates the sentence.  Since the 
exclamation mark is part of the quoted text, this change looks fine ;)
Comment 4 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-26 00:11:14 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida