more on block quotes
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:03:19 -0700
Just in case my example sounded as if this were a convention attached only
to literary writing or something Other examples of passages being reproduced
as block quotes would be any time you're reading an article about something,
say, history or politics, and the writer pauses and inserts a portion of
something like Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, with which many of us are very
familiar. The article will be normally formatted and then the passage from
Lincoln's speech will be indented from both left and right. And then the
article will continue, back in normal formatting in terms of alignment.
Finally, the use that Francis mentions is a new convention used to set off
things such as what he describes, portions of text that are Internet search
results or something like that. What it's doing is simply making a
different use of the same convention in order to signal that something is
not only important to pay attention to (the other purpose of indenting a
block quote) but is derived from outside the immediate context of what's
written above and below it.
In other words, yes, it's a visual signal, but one that is given to us by
Jaws saying "block quote," which I happen to appreciate, though someone else
might not care.
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