On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Lee Passey wrote:
interest are quotations. TEI has two tags for quotations, one apparently for long quotations (<quote>) and one apparently for short quotations, (<q>). I opted to treat <quote> as block-level tags (similar to the HTML <blockquote>) and <q> as inline (similar to the HTML <q>).
These two "quotation" tags do have slightly different usages. My understanding is that <q> is used for direct speech, ie, when a character in a book is saying something: John said <q>"I never saw a butterfly that color."</q> And the <quote> tag is used to mark material quoted from some external source: The weather reminds me of Dylan Thomas, who wrote: <quote>Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair</quote> The second one will often be block-level, but probably not always. Depending, as you mention, on what choises are made by who is doing the markup. Andrew