Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
quote is used in an example but apparently isn't part of TEI Lite (it's not in link_outAppendix A). What's the story?
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.
It is part of the full TEI spec. Thanks for pointing it out. I meant to have it in my test.xml, but I forgot. The test.xml should have <quote rend="display"> for blockquotes (and will on the next update.)
As I understand this (from an earlier post), 'rend="display"' is supposed to mean that the block should be indented (rather like the HTML blockquote). This seems like a very poor choice of terms to me. CSS has a "display" property, which can take values such as "inline", "block", and -- crucially -- "none". "display:none" is used where you don't want the content displayed at all. So using this rend="display" seems likely to result in confusion. In any case, the choice is poor because it does not convey the information desired. If you use <quote> on its own without rend="display", does that indicate you don't want to display the content? Or that you don't want to indent it? I personally don't see any need to use rend here. If you are quoting a passage from some other work, then enclose it in <quote> .. </quote>. That's enough. When someone comes to present this (e.g. in an HTML version), the most natural thing would be to convert the tag to blockquote. The rend is redundant.
q: in cases where the quotation marks don't balance, it may be difficult to automatically convert quotation marks to the appropriate q.../q form, and time consuming to manually proof. Accordingly, I suggest this step be left as optional.
I actually agree here. I prefer using " instead of <q>. Can any of the experts explain why this is a "bad idea"?
This was thrashed out at great length almost a year ago. Basically, while purists will see enormous merit in using <q> instead of quote marks, the practical approach is to stick with the quote marks, due to reasons outlined by another poster. (The terminating quote question with muli-paragraph quotes.) There's also nothing *wrong* with using this: <q>"Hello,"</q> she said. at least it's not disallowed in TEI. I believe there's a place in the TEI header to indicate which practice you are using in the text. -- Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, Adelaide University Library ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 8 8303 5190 Fax: +61 8 8303 4369 Email: stephen.thomas@adelaide.edu.au URL: http://staff.library.adelaide.edu.au/~sthomas/