Re: GDP: end singleton lists with a period?

[Trevor Daniels]

John Mandereau
> Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 14:59 -0700, Graham Percival a écrit :
> > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:31:05 +0200
> > John Mandereau <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorry to give higher priority to technical aspects, but references
> > > must be followed by punctuation in Info format, so please keep periods
> > > at the end of all lists ending with a @ref, even singleton lists.
> >
> > I'm not at all sorry to give higher priority to technical aspects,
> > but are you sure about this?  I just tried it, and info didn't
> > complain.
>
> Section 8.6 @ref in Texinfo 4.11 manual says @ref must be followed by
> punctuation because it's a limitation of Info file format, but a quick
> test shows that this limitation has already been eliminated in both
> makeinfo and Info readers (Emacs and info standalone).
>
> Well, that's good news, you can do the way you want in English.  In
> French and in Spanish, we'll stick with one period at the end of all
> lists; I'm tempted to do the same thing in English, but my opinion is
> definitely not valuable when it comes to English grammar :-p.

I'd now go for terminating all lists, even singleton one, with a period.
It is arguable whether this is incorrect in English.  Thinking about it
further, I think the statement, "It's not a sentence, so it can't have a
period", is a bit too glib.  I suspect this is meant to refer to things
like exclamations (which should end in an exclamation mark).

Whatever, I withdraw my objection.

> Cheers,
> John
>
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