[osis-core] Are quotes structure?

[Patrick Durusau]

Steve,

Steven J. DeRose wrote:

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> That's a really interesting point.... I'm having a little trouble 
> getting my head around that, but i think it's because the syntactic 
> analysis aspect is so ingrained.

Yes, it puzzled me at first because I tend to think of it as structure 
but since it is really an addition to the "original" text in order to 
make a claim via presentation, perhaps not.

>
> Would the consequence be that one just doesn't mark the elements 
> formerly known as nested quotes :) ?
>
>    Is there a decent way to parenthesize emoticons?
>
> We could certainly still get the quotation marks placed by hand, 
> though they couldn't be mapped between different national styles (for 
> example, swapping single and double would only work by chance for 
> US/UK usage, at least because of interference from apostrophes)....

Actually could use entities, which would allow remapping for display 
purposes. Would have to be consistently used.

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu