From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2949 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Senteces Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:49:11 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001011104911.019c7680@pop.wxs.nl> References: <000901c032f6$3d5b2160$2f450e97@nuovo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393720 13043 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ConTeXt" Original-To: "Giuseppe Bilotta" In-Reply-To: <000901c032f6$3d5b2160$2f450e97@nuovo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2949 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2949 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------