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Re: <q>

From: Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:30:20 +0000
Message-ID: <4126b3450810291530l6379d8fag670b35914a2bc617@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Robert J Burns" <rob@robburns.com>
Cc: "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, "Thomas Broyer" <t.broyer@gmail.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org> 
2008/10/29 Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>

> I agree. The text inside the q element should reflect the text actually
> quoted. The presentational idiom of having the quotation mark kerned over
> the top or even outside the trailing punctuation is something that should be
> handled at the presentational level.
>
> I added a bit about that to the marks attribute wiki page[1].


Interesting. I wasn't aware of the history of that convention.

Regards,

Sam
Received on Wednesday, 29 October 2008 22:30:56 GMT

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