Re: [i18n-discuss] The HTML q element can sometimes be useful. Discuss.

On 4/29/2016 1:42 PM, Tex Texin wrote:
> It is news to me that a quotation needs to be true. I thought it only needs to represent exact wording. Whether the person actually said it, is irrelevant.
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> So Bogart never said "Play it again Sam". He said "Play it Sam".
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> Both would be quoted and use the q element.
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> And quotes can be used in a question where the truth is being established: Did you say 'I am guilty'?
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> Am I mistaken?
No!

I think the <q> element, given that it exists, is fine for any text that 
appears inline, is set of from the surrounding text (normally) by 
balanced paired marks OR semantically is a quotation in the strict 
sense. One element of "q" is that it can be nested (and when nested, the 
text uses some convention for alternating the marks.

I think the train has left the station for defining any tightly limited 
semantics. Even "scare quotes" should not be ruled out, because they 
would (I assume) show the same tendency of being rendered with 
alternating marks if nested (for example if a statement with scare 
quotes was itself quoted).

A./
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> Sorry, I did not see the reference to 'non-fiction book', but that's not relevant to me. In respect to a book, something quoted is true if it is consistent to the book's universe and if the reader is intended to believe it is true. If the reader is intended to believe that the quoted text is not true, the < q > element should not be used.
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