[bksvol-discuss] Re: block quotes
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:37:20 -0700
Hi Devorah,
Since the quotes are designated by
indentations, and the bookshare files don't keep
those, I think I'd maybe put quotation marks
around the quote. But this might be considered
altering the text. Perhaps Jake, or Carrie, or
Pratik, or somebody with some authority could state pollicy, or an opinion?
Also, maybe a notation in brackets like those we
put around notes about the existence of pictures could be used? Just ideas.
Peace,
Mayrie
At 06:08 PM 4/11/2008, you wrote:
Thanks for the clarification about italics. I
will absolutely keep them in. May I ask another
question? This is a lovely book I?m validating.
It has many long quotes from the Qur?an. In
print books, long quotes are set apart by having
the entire quote indented, having bigger margins
both on the left and on the right sides of the
page. They are also often in a smaller font
size. The scanner did not indent the long quotes
in this book, and anyway, Bookshare removes indentations I understand.
How would it be helpful to indicate that these
are direct words from the Qur?an and not from
the author. The language style is different, is
that enough for a reader to get that it?s a
quote? Here?s an example from the book. The
sentence that begins Recite to them? and ends
with the verse numbers is an indented quote. All
the indented quotes do end in verse numbers, but
there are also verse numbers strewn throughout
the text. Thanks for any guidance.
genuine repentance (tauba) can turn an
apparently wholly evil man into a paragon of
virtue; on the other hand, although this is much
more rare, an apparent paragon of virtue (even a
prophet!) can turn into a near devil enmeshed in carnal pleasures:
Recite to them [O Muhammad!] the news of him
whom We had given our signs, but he abandoned
them and the devil pursued him so that he became
one of the deviants; if We had willed, We would
have exalted him through those signs, but he
gravitated down to the earth and followed his own desires. (7:175-76)
To hold that the Qur'an believes in an absolute
determinism of human behavior, denying free
choice on man's part, is not only to deny almost
the entire content of the Qur'an, but to
undercut its very basis: the Qur'an by its own
claim is an invitation to man to come to the right path (hudan li'l-nas).
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