Re: quotations

["Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm>]

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 06:44 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

>>
>> I'm not really sure honestly, but it seems this is what I was asking 
>> for to be the default behavior, and which is in most places (LaTeX, 
>> HTML, DocBook, Word, etc.) called "blockquote."
>
> so, do we choose blockquote as name for the display quotation with no 
> whitespace around it?

I was throwing it out there for comment from others.  My point is that 
there should be a clear analog to the blockquote structures as they 
work in other systems here.  It makes it easier for me as a user, and 
also easier to map code from DocBook and so forth to ConTeXt, and vice 
versa (relevant if we see a ConTeXt --> HTML converter).

But, I can also say that it is not uncommon for me to be confused by 
ConTeXt naming schemes, so maybe I just don't get a logic that is there 
but I just don't always see.

>> So here I can turn off the symbols?
>
> yes, and a bit more (although for non-quotes things startnarrower may 
> be a better solution)

My point is that, in my experience, long set off quotations (block 
quotes) do not have quotation marks.  They are, however, still "quotes."

Bruce