[sword-devel] OSIS Quote Marks

[Victor Porton]

On 30-Jun-2003 Chris Little wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Victor Porton wrote:
> 
> This is part of the crux of my arguemtnt that use of OSIS <q> in lieu of
> actual quote marks is a bad practice.  Characters, including quotation
> marks, are data and should be represented as character data, not markup,
> IMO.

The whole matter are things like:

<q>aaa<q>yyy</q>zzz</q>

Using <q> here allows software to automatically choose inward and outward
quote marks. So, e.g. if a man will delete <q>yyy</q> the software will
automatically change the outward quote marks (while a man can forget to
change these outward marks).

So <q> is a good thing.

-- 
Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com)