Re: Format question

Actually, not to ruffle anyone's feathers at any stage of this sequence, but 
"block quote" doesn't just mean a long quotation.  It doesn't even involve 
quotation marks before and after the passage.

What it is is a traditional printer's term for a portion of text that's 
taken from another source, not just say, someone speaking in response to an 
interviewer's question, or the like.

And this section is set offfrom the text above and beneath it by being 
indented from both sides, so that the block is narrower than the body of the 
article or whatever surrounds it.

Imagine a book review in which the reviewer is describing a recently 
published novel.  He or she writes paragraph after paragraph of description 
and commentary, and then comes to a place where he or she says something 
like, take this passage from the opening of Chapter Two, for example:

And here, there will be a blank line, and then the passage from the novel 
under review, maybe a paragraph or three or four, ending where the reviewer 
wants to end the example.  Indented from left and right so that it looks 
centered on the page, narrower than the rest of the text.  Like a block.

Then comes a blank line, and then begins the next paragraph of the text of 
the article or book review, flush against the left margin again except 
perhaps for the indented first line of each paragraph.

Some readers may not care to know when they encounter a block quote.  I do, 
though, because it tells me that the text in that block is coming 
fromoutside the rest of what I'm reading.

I hope that's clear and helpful.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Format question


Would you shoot me if I said they're to indicate the beginning and end of
a block quote? A block quote is an extended quotation encompassing more
than a few lines. It has nothing to do with sighted people as such.

You can turn voicing of block quote information off in the configuration
manager, HTML options, text tab.

Bruce

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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, AB7HW Dick Lee Chrisman wrote:

> Hello Group
> I wonder what the use of
> Block quote start
> and
> Block quote end
> are fore, can you set up JFW to skip over them?  What are this for, I know 
> it
> is for a sighted user, but what is the purpose?
> What does it do to the message, there must be a reason, how would you put
> them into the document?
> This is JAWS related because if they are of no use I will use JAWS to just
> remove or camouflage them.
> Dick
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