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Subject: RE: [dita] Behavior of <q> element
I'd rather not say this. It's a style question that may differ from one house to another as to whether they want to author the quotes or not and/or how the quote is to be presented. The determination of what text may be generated for a given element in a given context and/or what other formatting it gets for a given output (e.g., one may format things differently for PDF output and HTML output) should be left to the style specification, however such is provided to a given composition system. This is outside the scope of the DITA specification. So the answer to how <q> should be processed is that it should be processed however its style specification indicates for a given application. paul > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 2009 January 06 9:44 > To: dita > Subject: [dita] Behavior of <q> element > > > Hello, > > Going through the review comments to the specification, I found that > somebody asked for examples of how <q> should be processed. > Generally, we > try to stay away from processing behaviors, but this one may be an > exception. The current description gives no suggestions as to > whether or > not quotes should be generated. I checked the HTML 4.01 > specification to > see what they say; that specification says that q must be > rendered with > quotations, and that users should not add their own quotes. > It goes on to > say that the quotes should be rendered in a > language-sensitive manner. See > the section on rendering quotations: > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-Q > > Should we make a similar statement? I do not want to add > behaviors that > MUST be done without consulting the full TC, so - this is my > consultation.
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