Re: [q] Typesetting rules in Spanish

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 17:16:29 EDT


On 2002.09.07, 04:27, Robert <bob4you27@excite.com> wrote:

> Here're the basic punctuation rules for Spanish, from the US-GPO's
> Style Manual (March 1984 edition, page 445):
<...>
> ·QUESTION (¿ ?) and EXCLAMATION (¡ !) MARKS: Demarcate questions
> and exclamations as in English—the difference here (in Spanish) is
> that the inverted forms (¿ ¡) begin such sentences, while the regular
> forms (? !) are found at the end of them.

Demarcated questions and exclamations may not coincide wholly with a
sentence, but rather with it's ending period or word, f.i.:

Roberto es cachondo, ¿verdad?
Me han propuso este, ¡qué hortera!

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