Re: Wiki summary of q element default styling issues

ishida@w3.org scripsit:

> I'm assuming that when you say content you are assuming that the
> quotation marks are part of the content(?).  They aren't. They are
> stylistic effects. (Which is why Tex says that he sometimes colours
> or italicises his quotes, rather than uses quotation marks.)

I see.

> (NOTE: in this thread i'm looking for views about which language to
> use when quotation marks are autogenerated, not seeking views on
> whether they should be autogenerated at all.)

In that case I withdraw everything I have said, for I have no view
about that.  When best authoring practices are being discussed, then
I'll urge that authors be told to either avoid q elements altogether,
or to set the CSS quote property to none and type in quotation characters.

-- 
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This great college [Trinity], of this ancient university [Cambridge],
has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson
sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar
than Wordsworth, somewhere betwixt and between.  --A.E. Housman

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