X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1416" "Fri" "23" "October" "1998" "14:13:51" "+1000" "Ken Smith" "kgs@MATHS.UQ.EDU.AU" nil "33" "Re: Quotes and punctuation" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil "Quotes and punctuation" nil nil nil] nil) X-POP3-Rcpt: schoepf@polly.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA30021; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 06:17:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.518116F5@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 6:17:47 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 403986 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 06:14:04 +0200 Received: from abacus.maths.uq.edu.au (abacus.maths.uq.edu.au [130.102.160.6]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23366 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 06:13:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from humpty.maths.uq.edu.au (humpty.maths.uq.edu.au [130.102.160.19]) by abacus.maths.uq.edu.au (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA03641 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:13:52 +1000 (EST) Received: (from kgs@localhost) by humpty.maths.uq.edu.au (8.8.6/0.0.0) id OAA20202 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:13:51 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <199810230413.OAA20202@humpty.maths.uq.edu.au> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:13:51 +1000 From: Ken Smith Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Quotes and punctuation Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2709 On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:12:35 GMT Phillip Helbig wrote: > > He said \quote{foo}, she replied \quote{bar}, and so on. > > Then LaTeX uses a lookup in the current typesetting style (logical, > > illogical, UK English, US English, etc) to determine if the quotes should > > be single or double and the preferred style of nesting and so on. > > I think this is a great idea. The major problem would be the nesting. There are some parts of the Bible, for instance, where the outer quote is thousands of characters long. If an (or several) inner quotes were near the end of this there could be trouble with missing closing braces. I am sure we have all spent a lot of time looking for the source of "end occurred inside a group" errors. But for short quotes, which don't extend over a single paragraph, it would be ideal, and should be a lot easier to implement than things like \textbf{bold type}. -- > Phillip Helbig Email ......... p.helbig@jb.man.ac.uk > Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. .... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 297) > Jodrell Bank Fax ................ +44 1477 571 618 > Macclesfield Telex ................ 36149 JODREL G > UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web ... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/ > My opinions are not necessarily those of NRAL or the University of Manchester. Ken Smith