double full stops?

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello,
  "Words into Type" was ambiguous, but "Hart's Rules" was not, which says:
       An abbreviation point preceding a quotation mark closes a sentence
       and an extra point outside the quote is unnecessary, e.g. ...
       in 'titles of works, etc.'  The sentence point is, however,
       required after a parenthesis, e.g. ... titles (of works, etc.).

Summary:
        .".   cannot be, but  .).   is possible. That is, parentheses and
brackets behave differently.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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