I would use the <blockquote> element to group the paragraphs, and then have the XSL do the job.
*NeoDoc* *Camille Bégnis* cami...@neodoc.fr Tél: +33 (0)4.42.52.24.20 5, rue de la Touloubre 13770 Venelles France http://www.neodoc.fr/ On 03/06/2013 16:12, Jason Zech wrote: > I've run into the same problem. Since we use curly quote marks in our work, I > need to use the quote tag to get those right, and my workarounds don't seem > terribly elegant in these cases: > > 1) You could just use the quotation characters (rather than the tags) in > those instances (I made an entity for them), but this means you are treating > quotes in your work in 2 different ways. Not ideal at all but it works. > > 2) Later, I started marking those quotes with a role="continues" tag and > closing them as normal. I customized the XSLT to only output an opening quote > mark a <quote role="continutes">...</quote>. But then your content is not > really tagged correctly. But it also works. > > I tend to prefer the latter, but I don't know that DocBook handles this case > well. I'd love to hear other solutions. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Culver [mailto:crcul...@christopherculver.com] > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 6:54 AM > To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [docbook] Quote over multiple paragraphs > > What is the preferred way of marking up quotations that run over several > paragraphs (but which are not blockquotes)? The quote tag is not allowed > outside of the para tag. > > In English-language publications, when a quotation runs over several > paragraphs, the paragraphs are usually preceded by an opening quotation mark, > but they do not have a closing quotation mark unless they are the last > paragraph. I need to find out how to achieve this effect with Docbook and the > XSL stylesheets, or to at least represent this semantically within Docbook so > that I can write my own XSL. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > >
