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So, apparently my English professor doesn't like the concept of logical punctuation. And she stared at me as she said it, too, so I must've messed up in the essay.

Honestly, it's LOGICAl punctuation. I don't *care* if it's not the standard, the standard won't change until we make it change. Just sitting around saying "gee, I wish there were a better way" isn't going to get us anywhere. Siblings! Rise up! Throw off the shackles of stupid convention, and fight the oppression of illogical punctuation! We will punctuate in the classrooms, we will punctuate in the chatrooms, and in our own private journals. We will punctuate at all costs, and we will never surrender! Today - punctuation! Tomorrow - spelling!

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I'm not too sure about the division between "logical" and "traditional/standard," but my parents own a publishing company. In the U.S. My mom's the copy editor. I also do a lot of copyediting when I work for them (I'm a freelancer). Each book has its own standard to follow. For punctuation, however, when it comes to quotation marks, commas and periods go inside, and exclamation points and question marks go outside, unless they relate directly to the quotation. This is commonly accepted as the industry standard--unless, as I mentioned, the book has its own standard.

So if I were editing something, I'd make it look like this:

After she said "Hello," I asked "How are you?" And then we bought a "Pita." Do you like "Pitas"?

I don't know how they did it with actual block typesetting, but this is how it's generally done now. And really, only old stodgy authors ask to always put punctuation inside quotation marks.

This has gotten to be a long comment.