Rudolf and Hubert,

The 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style states in section
6.103 on pages 266--67:

  A period precedes the closing parenthesis if the entire sentence is
  in parentheses; otherwise if follows.

Since the text inside the parentheses is a sentence one solution is to
capitalize the 'n' in note; however, partition should be partitions.
A diff of my suggestions follows.

Ryan


$ cvs diff chap-exinst.xml
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<       give the most flexibility and precision (note that it is usually
<       better to align partition on cylinder boundaries for performance
---
>       give the most flexibility and precision (Note that it is usually
>       better to align partitions on cylinder boundaries for performance



On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:18:24AM +0200, rudolf wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> >On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, rudolf wrote:
> >
> >>-      reasons, at least on older hard disks.)
> >>+      reasons, at least on older hard disks).
> >
> >
> >I was (once upon a time) told that the former is actually the correct 
> >english spelling, and I think most of the Guide uses this. Which is why 
> >I didn't that some time ago (I thought about it, but decided against it 
> >because of those two reasons).
> >
> >
> > - hubert
> 
> Ok. There is the second case correct in my maternal language and I 
> thought I have seen similar correction to a man page in some mailing 
> list recently.
> 
> If we suppose that a text treating english grammar and punctuation is 
> correct in this regard (what a logic) :) than there is an example of the 
> second case here:
> http://www.bartleby.com/116/402.html
> so maybe there are at least both cases correct?
> 
> r.