[sword-devel] Quotation mark, non-English usage?

DM Smith dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 23 15:20:40 MST 2008


On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:

> DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> writes:
>> Another difficulty in identifying quotations is continuation marks.
>> (OSIS provides <milestone type="cQuote" ... /> for this.) I hear that
>> this varies by language. But in English when a quote spans paragraphs
>> the start of each paragraph in the quote starts with a " and do not  
>> end
>> with one (unless the quote ends there).
>
> I have to note that NASB Matt 25 appears in both GS and the Windows UI
> with every single sentence showing quotation marks.  That can't be  
> right
> under any of these methodologies.
>
> http://karl.kleinpaste.org/.../WinSword-NASB-Matt25.png
> http://karl.kleinpaste.org/.../GnomeSword-NASB-Matt25.png

Sure does look wrong. Even in BD.

But I took a look at the source from Lockman and it is as they have it.

-- DM





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