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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by odiroot on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:00AM (#28536828)
I wrote my whole master thesis as you describe. It was logical to me. Then my promotor complained that it's not correct so I had to go through whole 100+ pages to correct all the instances.
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by soheil on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:45PM (#28541368) 

  /\."\./, /\."/
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by odiroot on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:41PM (#28542705)
I also did the same for parenthesis, so would need to double the cases :)
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by soheil on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:45PM (#28544134) 

  /\.([^\w])\./, /\.$1/
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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by enriquto on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @06:54AM (#28537537)
why? can't it be solved by a sed script with less than ten characters?
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