Re: is it necessary to disambiguate (using markup) inline notes,citations and original markup? [was] use of <mark> to denote notes in quoted text

Hi Jukka, do you have any sources for your statements?

I have been looking for guidance on this online, but cannot find any.
Sources such as the Chicago manual of Style do not appear to cover this.



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SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 9 September 2013 20:24, Jukka K. Korpela <jukka.k.korpela@kolumbus.fi>wrote:

> 2013-09-09 22:06, Steve Faulkner wrote:
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>>     But within a quotation, whatever the difference might be, it
>>     should be retained simply because it is the right thing (morally,
>>     scientifically, and legally). Whatever is presented as direct
>>     quote should be an exact reproduction of the quoted part of work,
>>     except when changes are necessitated and indicated.
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>> So if I copy some text then take that text and put it in a blockquote,
>> without copying the underlying code it includes, it is wrong " (morally,
>> scientifically, and legally)"?
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> Yes. Just as it it similarly wrong to quote printed text in a printed book
> so that the use of italic, bolding, or underlining is omitted.
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>> I find that difficult to accept. In many cases an author has limited
>> control over the way their content is marked up or the person (or machine)
>> doing the is not the author of the text, in many cases where a quote is
>> sourced is not the primary source, in many cases the primary source is not
>> a HTML document.
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>>  No work may legally be published without the consent of the author,
> unless its copyright has expired.
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> A quotation shall, of course, present an excerpt from a primary source.
> For a work that has been published both in printed format and in HTML
> format, you can quote either variant in your HTML document; they can both
> be regarded as primary, even if one of them was published before the other.
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