Re: Typographic conventions (was: Request for review: fwknop package)
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Ben Finney (ben+debian@benfinney.id.au):
>> Justin B Rye <jbr@xibalba.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>> Instead of "doing X; doing Y; doing Z", make that "doing X, doing Y,
>>> and doing Z":
>>
>> Ah, the Oxford comma. Music to my eyes :-)
>
> For /me unaware of the subtleties of en_GB, what above is the Oxford
> comma?
Also known as the Harvard or Serial comma, a subject of some debate
in English punctuation style guides; for pros and cons see
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma";.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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