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Re: Quotes
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Michael Piotrowski |
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Re: Quotes |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:02:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) |
Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:14:38 +0200, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
> > After annoying you with questions about sentence ends in various
> > languages, here is one about quotation marks.
> >
> > I'm currently using a function like this to automatically produce
> > appropriate quotation marks:
> >
> > def @Quote right x address@hidden @Case {
> > {de German} @Yield ,,x``
> > {fr French} @Yield «~x~»
> > else @Yield ``x''}}
> >
> > Now I thought I could add some more languages; if there's interest, I
> > could also create patches for standard.ld and dsf....
>
> I'm a bit puzzled by this. What use is it? Why not just write the
> quotation characters themselves?
It's useful when automatically generating Lout input from sources that
don't contain the quotation marks; you can always output @Quote{...}
and the quotes will come out right.
Of course one could put this knowledge somewhere else, but you've got
to have this knowledge *somewhere* in your system. And since Lout is
already quite smart about language I think it wouldn't be a bad place
to put it. After all, it's not much different from knowing what to
call a figure or a table of contents, isn't it?
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <address@hidden>
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