Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

[Nicholas WASTELL]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:05:28 +0200
"James E. Bailey" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Since it isn't a complete sentence, I would vote against a period.  
> It's non-standard to put periods in a list of bulleted items
> • Normally without a period, because it isn't a complete sentence.
> • Also non-standard to make bulleted lists out of complete sentences

You mixed two styles in your reply.

We are not talking of bulletted lists.  The case in point (no pun ...) is not a 
grammatical construction in prose anyway, so it's a matter of style preference. 
 I would suggest that an in-line list should have terms separated by a comma 
and the list terminated by a period, even if there is only one term (to 
indicate that none is missing).

My £0.02. ;-)

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Nicholas WASTELL
France