Re: Senteces

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:14 PM 10/10/00 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello, I just discovered a need for a particular treatment of sentences
>(speechs?) in some typographic styles.
>
>Precisely, in Italy, when a spoken sentence is longer that a paragraph, you
>usually put a guillemot at the beginning of every paragraph included in the
>sentence, and put a closing guillemot only at the end of the final
>paragraph. Moreover, you use guillemots at the beginning of intermediate
>paragraphs even when (alongside the american typography) you use --- to
>begin speechs.

\starttext 

\unprotect

\definesymbol
  [beginquotation] 
  [\getvalue{\??la\currentlanguage\c!leftquotation}]

\definesymbol
  [endquotation] 
  [\getvalue{\??la\currentlanguage\c!rightquotation}]

\protect 

\definestartstop
  [Iquotation]
  [before=\startquotation\EveryPar{\symbol[beginquotation]},
   after=\stopquotation]

\input tufte 

\startIquotation
\input knuth 
\stopIquotation

\input tufte 

\stoptext

It can be an option to the normal quotation mechanism. Do other languages
have special requirements? I'm thinking of typo-lgcode classes, which I
need for Chinese [under construction] and Farsi [being worked on esp for
omega] anyway, 

Hans
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