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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:03:34 +0200
From: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Add comma after e.g. and i.e.?
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On 2020-08-25 20:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We are inconsistently about adding a comma after e.g. and i.e.:
[..]

> 	Virtually all American style guides recommend to follow both “i.e.” 
> and
> 	“e.g.” with a comma (just like if “that is” and “for example” were 
> used
> 	instead), so the very same sentence in American English would become:
> 
> So, what do we want to do?  Leave it unchanged, or pick one of these
> styles?


For what it's worth, I am in favor of that comma.


Erik Rijkers