This is what I said, I never mentioned quotation marks. A block quote is
an extended quotation, be that a quotation from someone who is speaking or
a quotation from another source, it's still a quotation. That's my last
word on this as we're drifting away from JAWS.
Bruce
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Yardbird wrote:
> 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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