Re: [q] Typesetting rules in Spanish

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin ([email protected])
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 17:16:29 EDT

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On 2002.09.07, 04:27, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here're the basic punctuation rules for Spanish, from the US-GPO's
> Style Manual (March 1984 edition, page 445):
<...>
> �QUESTION (� ?) and EXCLAMATION (� !) MARKS: Demarcate questions
> and exclamations as in English�the difference here (in Spanish) is
> that the inverted forms (� �) begin such sentences, while the regular
> forms (? !) are found at the end of them.

Demarcated questions and exclamations may not coincide wholly with a
sentence, but rather with it's ending period or word, f.i.:

Roberto es cachondo, �verdad?
Me han propuso este, �qu� hortera!

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