- From: William M. Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
- Date: 05 May 1997 13:52:04 -0700
- To: "David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Cc: "Daniel Hale" <dhale@pobox.com>, "Chris Lilley" <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, <www-style@w3.org>
"David Perrell" <davidp@earthlink.net> writes: > Chris Lilley wrote: > > Yes, precisely. Using <Q lang=fr>stuff</Q> gets you french quotes. > > I wonder how Q will be handled in the case of quotations that span > multiple paragraphs. Current usage in English is to begin each subsequent > paragraph with a double open quote but not use the end quote until the > end of the last paragraph of the quotation. We went into this a long long time ago, and things get pretty thorny when dealing with different languages and conventions about when quotes go where, etc. I don't think we really ever reached a consensus - anyone remember the arguments better than I? -Bill P.
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