diff -r a37c7290ccc8 xsl/common/lib.xsl
--- a/xsl/common/lib.xsl	Sun Apr 25 15:54:28 2010 +0200
+++ b/xsl/common/lib.xsl	Sun Jan 30 23:32:16 2011 +0100
@@ -13,6 +13,23 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
 
 <!-- Only an excerpt of the original file -->
+
+<xsl:template name="dot.count">
+  <!-- Returns the number of "." characters in a string -->
+  <xsl:param name="string"/>
+  <xsl:param name="count" select="0"/>
+  <xsl:choose>
+    <xsl:when test="contains($string, '.')">
+      <xsl:call-template name="dot.count">
+        <xsl:with-param name="string" select="substring-after($string, '.')"/>
+        <xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count+1"/>
+      </xsl:call-template>
+    </xsl:when>
+    <xsl:otherwise>
+      <xsl:value-of select="$count"/>
+    </xsl:otherwise>
+  </xsl:choose>
+</xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template name="pi-attribute">
   <xsl:param name="pis" select="processing-instruction('BOGUS_PI')"/>
diff -r a37c7290ccc8 xsl/inlined.xsl
--- a/xsl/inlined.xsl	Sun Apr 25 15:54:28 2010 +0200
+++ b/xsl/inlined.xsl	Sun Jan 30 23:32:16 2011 +0100
@@ -440,9 +440,26 @@
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="quote">
-  <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nestedstartquote"/>
-  <xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
-  <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nestedendquote"/>
+  <xsl:variable name="depth">
+    <xsl:call-template name="dot.count">
+      <xsl:with-param name="string">
+        <xsl:number level="multiple"/>
+      </xsl:with-param>
+    </xsl:call-template>
+  </xsl:variable>
+
+  <xsl:choose>
+    <xsl:when test="$depth mod 2 = 0">
+      <xsl:call-template name="gentext.startquote"/>
+      <xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
+      <xsl:call-template name="gentext.endquote"/>
+    </xsl:when>
+    <xsl:otherwise>
+      <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nestedstartquote"/>
+      <xsl:call-template name="inline.charseq"/>
+      <xsl:call-template name="gentext.nestedendquote"/>
+    </xsl:otherwise>
+  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="varname">