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Date:         Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:45:41 +1000
From: Ken Smith <kgs@MATHS.UQ.EDU.AU>
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Subject:      Re: Quotes and punctuation
Status: R

Timothy Murphy <tim@MATHS.TCD.IE> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 07:02:01PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:
> >
> >   Returning to TeX and LaTeX, I think that we will have to wait for
> > suitable extensions of TeX instead of hoping for an implementation via the
> > Godel theorem. :-)
>
> Apologies for asking a very elementary question,
> but is the problem in this case that one gets into difficulty
> if one says \quote{...\quote{...}...} ?
> Would there still be difficulty if one said
> \quote{...\inquote{...}...} ?
> Ie is it the nesting of \quote that causes the problem ?
>
> If so, it would seem to me to be simpler
> to require use of \inquote or whatever
> rather than re-creating the universe.

But then you could need
\quote{...\inquote{...\ininquote{...\inininquote{...}...}...}...}
I have encountered quotations to this depth of nesting.
Has anyone met greater depth of nesting?
The real problem here would be remembering which level you were at,
in case an additional level of quotation was needed.

Ken Smith
kgs@maths.uq.edu.au