[osis-core] Continuation quotes - add in <milestone type="continuationQuote"/>

[Patrick Durusau]

Todd,

Talked to Troy and suggested:

<milestone type="cQuote"/>

Works for me, particularly since milestones can go anywhere.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Todd Tillinghast wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> Are you talking about rendering or how to encode?
> 
> It seems how to render.  I suspect that there are complications in
> practice as indicated by Troy's post from Lockman.
> 
> It is possible to allow for a <milestone type="continuationQuote"/> IN
> ADDATION TO the normal <q> element that marks the start and end of the
> quote.  This would cover the case where a single continuous quote starts
> in one paragraph and ends in a later paragraph or even section.  There
> is little harm in allowing a type attribute on <milestone>.  It could be
> ignored and rendered without the continuation quote mark, but it would
> prevent people from having to implement complex and likely manually
> determined positioning of continuation quote marks.  For these reasons,
> I am suggesting that we allow the mechanism.
> 
> I would like to stress that I think these milestones SOULD NOT alter in
> any way the meaning of the <q> element only allow for a mechanism to
> encode the position of a continuation quote mark.
> 
> I would not say that best practice would require the usage of these
> milestone elements AND that an encoding with them would also be
> considered best practice.
> 
> I would also say that an application would be conformant if it chooses
> to ignore the continuation quote milestones and did its own thing.
> 
> Naturally a continuation quote mark milestone would have to occur within
> a <q> element and would apply to the <q> element that is its nearest
> ancestor.  (Sounds like text for the user manual)
> 
> This is not intended to handle the case where a quote is interrupted.
> 
> Todd
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
>>admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
>>Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:01 PM
>>To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
>>Subject: [osis-core] Continuation quotes
>>
>>Guys,
>>
>>Talking to Steve on the phone and he had a great idea about the
>>continuation quote problem.
>>
>>This is the case where a quote starts, end paragraph for example, no
>>close quotation marker, then a new line, a continuation quote marker,
>>more of the quote and then the closing quote mark (matching the first
> 
> one).
> 
>>Steve observed that if you have:
>>
>><q>
>><p></p>
>><p></p>
>></q>
>>
>>The stylesheet should distinguish a <p> in an open quote and then
> 
> insert
> 
>>the continuation quote marker.
>>
>>Don't know if that will work in all cases but thought it was at least
>>worth thinking about and putting a note in the users manual on dealing
>>with that case.
>>
>>Hope everyone is having a great day!
>>
>>Patrick
>>
>>--
>>Patrick Durusau
>>Director of Research and Development
>>Society of Biblical Literature
>>Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
>>Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
>>Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
>>
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!