On sexta-feira, 3 de junho de 2016 13:05:10 BRT Ulf Hermann wrote: > On 06/03/2016 01:01 PM, Martin Smith wrote: > > Because every human being learns from an early age that when forming a > > list of words separated by commas, each comma is placed immediately after > > the word. Putting the comma at the start is a deviation from what every > > human being first learned. No human being on the planet was taught to put > > a comma at the beginning of a line. > I think you are a western supremacist
Do you know of any language that even has a space before a comma? I know French requires a space before any punctuation consisting of more than one drawing (! ? ; and : all have two drawings), which means a comma is excluded from that and is placed right next to the previous word, without space. In English, that is so much so that it comes *inside* the closing quote of a quotation, even if the quotation did not have a comma there. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
