Presentation of Q

Neil St.Laurent writes:

 > These seems somewhat like a stylistic problem, since the quotes 
 > really have no meaning themselves and only meant for display. However 
 > CSS would not be able to specify this type of special quotes 
 > rendering.

True, CSS1 cannot do this. There is a proposal to add this capability
in the future, e.g.:

  Q:before { content: "«" }
  Q:after { content: "»" }

The new 'content' property would also be useful for e.g. automatic
numbering of elements.

Regards,

-h&kon

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