5 mai 2019 02:03 "Alan Braslau" <[email protected]> a écrit:
> I don’t know if that is correct, but clearly \quotation and \quote at first > view seem strange to > give the same result. >(...) First, happy new year! Then I noticed this point, but I confess that it was not given high priority... Let us recall that the problem was related to second level quotations in French. Roughly speaking, do we have to write: (i) Je me souviens avoir dit <<Pourquoi criez-vous "Au voleur !" Aurait-on volé votre manuel de ConTeXt ? >> or: (ii) Je me souviens avoir dit <<Pourquoi criez-vous <<Au voleur !>> Aurait-on volé votre manuel de ConTeXt ? >> Among the typography manuals I know for French, the most complete explanation about this subject is given at: Maurice Grévisse. "Le bon usage". Edition de 1988, §133, p. 185. For a long time, (ii) was the only correct form, but reading such may be quite confusing. More and more often, English guillemets - "..." (or '...', less used) - are put for a quotation inside another quotation. My Grévisse book is not the last edition, but I think that this point has not been changed. I think that (i) should be the default solution - as I told Tomas at BachoTeX - and some workaround should allow end-users to put (ii) into action if they would like to refer to a very old rule. Surprisingly, a very ancient rule is given by Chicago Manual of Style's 14th Edition: an opening guillemet should be put at each line beginning when the enclosed citation is running (§9.26). Our example would become: Je me souviens avoir dit <<Pourquoi criez-vous <<Au <<voleur !>> Aurait-on volé votre manuel de ConTeXt ?>> but this ridiculous use has disappeared within French modern publishing. A variant? The Guide du typographe romand (published at Lausanne) suggest to use 'simple guillemets' for enclosed quotations: Je me souviens avoir dit <<Pourquoi criez-vous <Au voleur !> Aurait-on volé votre manuel de ConTeXt ?>> To end up, if you difficultly understand this example in French: I remember that I said: "Why did you shout 'Stop thief!' Has your ConTeXt manual being stolen?" Yours sincerely, J.-M. _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context
