Punctuation Inside Outside

OTR likely produced several thousand pages of planning documents in the last two decades of his career. That's a lot of words, and an equally large amount of punctuation, most of it written according to the laws of The Chicago Manual of Style and a few specialized guidelines from the Department of the Interior. No matter the duration, the quantity or the audience for the written word, writers often face the question, "Is that _____ in the right place?"

For the writers among us, OTR offers this observation on the rise of "logical punctuation," which recently appeared at slate.com. Hat tip goes to Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds.