- From: Philippe-Andre Prindeville <philipp@res.enst.fr>
- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 95 07:12:32 +0100
- To: mseaton@inforamp.net, bbreak@mit.edu (Ben Breakstone), www-html@w3.org
On Dec 27, 21:16, Michael Seaton wrote: > bbreak@mit.edu (Ben Breakstone) wrote: > [ snip ] > > I believe the absence of typesetter's (or "curly," or "smart") quotation > > marks from the english HTML entity set to be a grievous omission. > > These could be hinted at in the current standard by using <Q> </Q>. > > However this is still not a full substitute for having entity names, > since there will likely be cases in which a solitary quote is desired. Yes, indeed. You might have several paragraphs all from the same person, with no interruption. In that case, each paragraph would start with a left double quote, but no closing quote would be necessary. So you could make </q> optional, like </p> is. Note: this is highly language dependent. Not all latin scripted languages follow this convention. I know French doesn't, for example. -Philip
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