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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 Jan 1998.
Re: Smiley-face query

Re: Smiley-face query

Major Major wrote:
[ 8< ]
> But I am always perplexed by one situation. That is, a smiley at the end
> of a sentence in parenthesis. Such as this:
> 
> (No, I don't mean Bob :))
[ 8< ]
> (BTW, I was sorry to hear of your Aunt's demise :()
[ 8< ]

I agree, this is a problem.

(I usually try to add some space around the smiley  :)  ) 

(If it's a smiling smiley you can also just ignore the ending ")"  :)

(If the smiley is in the middle of the text  :)   this isn't such a
great problem, but it might be a little bit confusing since you might
think the parenthesis ended with the smiley...)

And then, of course, there are situations where smileys seem to appear
when they shouldn't... can't think of one right now, but I have seen
such examples.

And finally there is the problem of punctuation that can, for example,
turn a sad smiley into a crying smiley. In that case the best idea seems
to be to place the smiley after the dot and with a little extra space in
front of it.  :)

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