Re: Quotations

Joel de Guzman <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>> I think on
>>> 
> http://boost-consulting.com/boost/tools/quickbook/doc/html/quickbook/syntax/phrase.html
>  
>
>>>
>>> the section title should be "Quotations" and not "Quotes."  Unless,
>>
>>
>> Ok, fixed.
>>
>>> that is, there is another DocBook element for attributions.  Do
>>> attributions in DocBook not include the representation of the person
>>> being quoted?
>>
>>
>> AFAIK, no (did some search). But I'm not a DocBook guru.
>
> Ok, a blockquote may have attribution. I think we have to
> exploit that in QB. Maybe:
>
> [:What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
> Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
> --William Shakespeare]
>
> Should generate:
>
> <blockquote>
>   <attribution>William Shakespeare</attribution>
>   <quote>
>   What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
>   Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
>   </quote>
> </blockquote>

Not bad.

BTW, what about Unicode input?  I commonly need characters like the em
dash, curly quotes, etc., that aren't available in the usual 7/8 bit
character sets.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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