beavis wrote:
In article k%A9f.2176$HQ5.1045@trndny06, George Patterson
wrote:

Insert as desired .,"';:?

The period goes inside the quotation marks. That was my point.

I'm aware of that. I was quoting Mark Twain, who issued that reply to a
publisher who complained about his punctuation.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.