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3. A word on style
All the chapters from this here are written by Brian Ward. 
Text that looks like this is either something that appears on your screen, a 
filename, or something that can be directly typed in, such as a command, or 
options to a command (if you're looking at a plain-text file, it doesn't look 
any different). Commands and other input are frequently quoted (with ` '), which 
causes the following classic punctuation problem: if such an item appears at the 
end of a sentence in quotes, people often type a `.' along with the command, 
because the American quoting style says to put the period inside of the 
quotation marks. Even though common sense (and unfortunately, this assumes that 
the one with the ``common sense'' is used to the so-called American style of 
quotation) should tell one to strip off the punctuation first, many people 
simply do not remember, so I will place it outside the quotation marks in such 
cases. In other words, when indicating that you should type ``make config'' I 
would write `make config', not `make config.' 


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