Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote:
>
> jseymour@linxnet.com (Jim Seymour) writes:
>
> > Oh, if you're accepting punctuation nits ;), in most cases, the comma
> > should come after "but," not before it. So your sentence should read
> > "PostgreSQL will run on almost any hardware but, if you are..."
>
> Wrong. :)
>
> You are sentenced to go read Strunk and White again.
I stand corrected. I always used to put the comma before "but," but
changed after reading somewhere, or thinking I had, that was incorrect
for certain sentence structures.
Neither of my style guides supports what I said earlier, so I cannot
imagine whence I got that idea.
Jim