Re: Title, subtitle question

In article <eaj0kc01in7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Father Ignatius filted:

Rolling my jaundiced eye towards the first three books with subtitles on the
nearest bookshelf, I discover:

The /New/ Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent,
the Eager and the Doomed.

Eats[,] Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.

A Guide to LaTeX: Documentation Preparation for Beginners and Advanced
Users.

ObSDCWarmup: without peeking or googling, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Lynne Truss,
and (I think) Donald Knuth, respectively....

Also without peeking or googling: I think you're right on the first
two but wrong on the third (my first guess is Kopka and Daly, first
names not known to me; my second guess is Leslie Lamport).

Topic for discussion: do *all* AUE regulars own the same books?...r

Dunno. I don't actually own any of these books (unless my second
guess about the last one is true). I do have a previous edition
of the first one -- and I'm asking myself whether its title also
lacked the comma before "and", and why I seem not to remember this
I-think-it's-a-flaw. Maybe the overall charm of the title ....

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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