Quotation marks and commas/periods in American English

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To enclose direct quotations, commas and periods go inside the closing quotation mark in conventional American usage.

To achieve it, the following standard entries are supposed to look like:

For

C

Code

Note

comma

,

\sl

See the note about character l.

This entry allows the right curly quotation mark after comma.

period

.

,\s.\nl

This entry allows the right curly quotation mark after period.

new paragraph or line

 

\n

 

\o\n\sl

The following entry for curly quotation mark is supposed to exist and to look like:

Description

C

Code

Note

right curly quote

l

\s\n

See the note about character l.

This entry allows only space and new paragraph after right curly quotation.

See also Quotation marks, and Quotation marks and commas/periods in other languages.

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