Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> writes:
Carlo Traverso wrote:
Marcello> Steve Thomas wrote: >> The common advice seems to be to use <q> to enclose quoted >> speech *inline*, and use <quote> for quoting larger blocks of >> text. The P4 TEI manual was a bit vague on this, but that seems >> to be a sensible convention worth using. Marcello> That would be presentational markup and very against the Marcello> TEI specs. The specs are very detailed on this: If TEI has to be used only semantically, then it is inadequate for PG needs. PG markup has to contain presentational elements, in such a way that one can obtain presentations "faithful to the original".
Marcello of course is completely correct, but that doesn't mean that Steve is wrong.... Einstein didn't invalidate Newton, he refined Newton. That's how progressive passes of markup should work. A lot of people are coming to TEI from an HTML background. It's the 'ol when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail. And in a way, as a general rule you could say that <q> is for inline and <quote> is for block quotes. And many times you'd be right, even though many times it would be for the wrong reasons. Steve has voiced a sort of first-pass, rule of thumb. It's a bit like the <hi> tag in TEI which isn't terribly semantic when used as a first pass general markup tag. I would love to see a defined first-pass set of markup tags which would be as easy as HTML to learn and apply. This would help enormously in early stages of markup which could then be done by folks who haven't spent long lonely hours pouring over the TEI manual and then testing chunks of code in nxml-mode (an XML editing mode in Emacs). b/ Who is bloody thankful the sun just went down after a blistering day in the big shitty.... sometimes I wish I could afford air-con. And the hot season is still yet to come. -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand