"Jose" wrote in message news:xvB9f.4312

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

That's stylistic more than grammatic. It is in fact logically incorrect
in this instance, where the quoted part is not itself a sentence; the
period is put (by some publishers) inside for looks primarily.

Trivia: The period is put inside the quotation marks because in the old
mechanical printing presses, the metal type piece for a period was almost
half as thin (but still as tall) as the double-quote ["]. At the end of
paragraphs, the [.] would generally be the last type piece, but it was very
fragile. If there was any slop in the machine, the type piece could wiggle
or lean out of alignment and break off. For that reason, typesetters
preferred to tuck he period inside the thicker doublequote metal type piece,
and that practice filtered up to publishers and editors until it became
standard convention.

So it goes. Editors still generally tuck he period inside the doublequote
because it has become familiar to the eye.

-Chris
PP/ASEL/IA