discuss: Quoting styles in documents.
Subject:
Re: Quoting styles in documents.
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
8 Feb 2003 20:20:37 -0000
Message-Id: <1044735495.25126.46.camel@mysticchild>
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 10:24, Charles Curley wrote:
First, glad to hear I got the usage right - thanks Charles!
I also wanted to add that you brought up some great points here about
quote usage in DocBook. I hope all authors out there will take a glance
at the info below. Many new documents come in without the quotes marked
up - it's easy enough to fix, but it helps the author get the doc in the
door that much more complete.
> Let me add to this that when working in Docbook, use the <quote> tag
> to delimit first level quotes. (E.g: The American commander replied to
> the German surrender demand, <quote>Nuts!</quote>) This, of course,
> moves the issue from the writer to the style sheet designer, where it
> properly belongs precisely because of internationalization issues.
>
> For larger quotes, encompasing whole paragraphs, use <blockquote>. In
> typesetting, block quotes may not have quote marks at all, but may be
> set off with indentation or italics.
>
> For chapter headers and that sort of thing, see <epigraph>.
> > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 02:29, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have seen people use several quoting styles when they write
> > > documents, "like this", `some like this', ``a few like this''
> > > and 'probably like this'. What is the rationale behind using
> > > these styles? is this just a personal preference or is there
> > > something else behind this? What is the prefered way of doing
> > > it?
> > >
> > > Giridhar
> > >
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