Best way to handle quotes and non-quotes

[ploughansen]

I know I’m suppose to wrap quotes in either a

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or

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, but what about non-quotes? You know… words that sort of still demands the quotation marks.

Example:
We went to see the sculpture "Friendship" by Robert Jacobsen.

Should the word Friendship be wrapped in quotation tags, or is it okay to just use a " ?

The reason I’m in doubt, is that I don’t know if quotation tags are only meant for, well… quotes!??

[ikthius]

well if you wnat to show something as a quote, as Doc said " is best to use.

but as for when you use them, is up to you and "your grammer"

[davesgonebananas]

Strictly speaking <blockquote> is a block element and <q> is an inline element. This means <blockquote> is automatically on a new line whereas <q> is not.

So for your example you could use:

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We went to see the sculpture Friendship by Robert Jacobsen.
We went to see the sculpture “Friendship” by Robert Jacobsen.
We went to see the sculpture "Friendship" by Robert Jacobsen.

The <q></q> wraps the word Friendship in ‘smart’ quotation marks. i.e. We went to see the sculpture “Friendship” by Robert Jacobson.

If you prefer not to use <q> you can get the same result by using &ldquo; and &rdquo; in your markup.

Finally ,you can use &quot; which results in "Friendship". i.e. standard quotation marks.

Hope that gives you a few options to try out.
Dave

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