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From: | Graham Percival |
Subject: | Re: Backporting doc changes to stable/2.10 [was: Re: Docs check-translation] |
Date: | Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:51:03 -0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) |
Jean-Charles wrote:
All the documents that I have read about typography and "good use" show examples introduced with a colon (:) throughout their content. So I think it is normal French typography to do like this.
To be honest, I'm not certain where the no-colon rule came from. I just checked a few technical books lying around (I'm in a lab) and they sometimes used colons.
Not that I consider blogs to be authoritative, but this article makes sense to me:
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/2005/12/23/mind-your-colons/ (err, no pun intended by using a colon there. :)I propose that we use the guidelines in the link -- use a colon to introduce material if the sentence is a complete sentence.
Cheers, - Graham
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