Re: [PATCH book] Use of <quote> over "

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:51:17PM -0800, Garret Wilson wrote:
> I believe the main difference between ' and " (as used for quotations)
> is stylistic only. In the US, we use " with nested ' as in, "Larry said,
> 'Have you heard from Karl?'" In the UK they use the opposite, as in,
> 'Larry said, "Have you heard from Karl?"' There is no semantic
> difference between the two, so if <quote> is used for both, a smart user
> agent could automatically generate the correct characters, based upon
> the locale.

In this instance it was the following:

        <para>We've seen some simple examples of how two collaborators
        can use Subversion to publish and receive changes from one
        another, using the 'copy-modify-merge' model.</para>

Looking over it, I feel it might be better to put <quote> on this also.

> Lastly, for displaying parts of programming code with quotes (such as
> getAnswer("2+2"), the <quote> element should not be used. Quotes in a
> program code do not indicate quotations---computer programming languages
> simply decided to use the ASCII character " as a delimiter for strings.
> One would not want to read getAnswer(«2+2») in France.

Yeah, I hope I didn't change any of those. I made sure not to change those.

-- Larry

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Received on Mon Mar 17 23:00:12 2003