- From: W. Eliot Kimber <kimber@passage.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:35:25 -0900
- To: Martin Bryan <mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 09:13 AM 9/24/96 +0100, Martin Bryan wrote: >I cannot see your average novelist adopting XML if he has to use a standard >word processor type in: > ><P>He said "It stinks" as he picked up the ½" bar</p> > >or > ><p><c>He said </c><q><c>It stinks</c></q><c>as he....</c></p> What about simply quoting quotes (where unquoted quotes are PCDATA delimiters): <p>"He said ~"It stinks~" as he...."</p> Legions of TeX typists do more or less the same every day... ['~"' is shortrefed to '"' as a CDATA entity for SGML processing.] Cheers, E. -- W. Eliot Kimber (kimber@passage.com) Senior SGML Consultant and HyTime Specialist Passage Systems, Inc., (512)339-1400 10596 N. Tantau Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014-3535 (408) 366-0300, (408) 366-0320 (fax) 2608 Pinewood Terrace, Austin, TX 78757 (512) 339-1400 (fone/fax) http://www.passage.com (work) http://www.drmacro.com (home) "If I never had existed, would you still remember me?..." --Austin Lounge Lizards, "1984 Blues"
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