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| 837.1 | This is one for the 'oversight' list | CLOSET::ANKLAM | | Fri Aug 21 1987 13:23 | 10 |
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This is a real oversight in DOCUMENT (remember our origins are in
software documentation, where such extended quotations never occur).
This will have to go on the 'bug' list. You are right that the
proper behavior would be for DOCUMENT to be smart about the context,
so that paragraphs encountered inside quotations would automatically
be preceded with the continuation opening quotation mark.
-pa
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| 837.2 | Use displayed quotations | TOKLAS::FELDMAN | PDS, our next success | Fri Aug 21 1987 20:48 | 22 |
| The type of quotation described in .0 seems appropriate for fiction,
newspaper reporting, and probably some other contexts. Not having
the complete text, I can't tell whether it's appropriate for this
particular case.
But for academic writing, and I imagine formal business writing such as
this, a better alternative (according to my favorite reference) to do a
multi-paragraph quote is with a displayed quotation. That is,
You set larger margins at both sides of the quotation.
And write the quotation this way, with no quotation marks.
(My favorite reference book on writing happens to be A Handbook for
Scholars, by Mary-Claire van Leunen. Of course, there are many other
references on writing.)
Of course, Document still needs to solve the problem of unmatched open
quotes. You never can tell when someone might want to use Document
to write a novel.
Gary
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| 837.3 | ``Quote me | CLOSET::SEGAL | | Tue Aug 25 1987 18:04 | 15 |
| You CAN enter opening quotation marks by typing 2 consecutive
single left quote (or keyboard accent grave) characters:
``Isolated open quote marks
You can also enter two consecutive apostrophes to obtain
the double quotation marks:
Isolated close quote marks''
Single quotes will also work as in `real thing'.
As Patti noted, free-standing accents are only available
with the <ACCENT> tag.
Lee
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| 837.4 | see also 840 | CLOSET::SEGAL | | Tue Aug 25 1987 18:15 | 4 |
| Related problem, wrong note.
My reference to Patti's explanation of ACCENT in the preceding reply
concerns note 840 more than this note.
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| 837.5 | ,,blah blah'' sounds right for some managers | IJSAPL::KLERK | Theo de Klerk | Wed Aug 26 1987 12:30 | 7 |
| For those who don't like the ``quoting'' and conform the official
way of doing it in quite a few European languages, you ought to
use ,,this'' rather than ``that''.
With the good old fashioned typewriter (the one that works if the
electricity stops...) it seemed almost been replaced by "this".
Theo
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