"Marcello" == Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> writes:
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". A PG-TEI encoded text should allow to call a transform to a presentation form with an "original" formatting specification, allowing to recover whatever was in the original, (as well as other specifications allowing to change it). This might include, (referring to quotations), the possibility of rendering a quoted section with running quotation marks at the start of each line. One should never forget that presentation IS semantic: this is evident with heavily formatted poetry, (Mallarme's "Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hazard" is a quite extreme case) but in some form or another it is always true. Carlo