On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:17:56AM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote: > > variants for formats like e-TeX, pdfTeX, LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, etc. > > Etc means "and so one" from "et cetera". There should be no comma before > etc. Even in British English usage, where we don't normally use a comma before the "and" at the end of a list, we put a comma before "etc.". Or at least, so I believe. Julian