Talk:Quotation mark/Archive 5
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Spaces inside quotes (in the table)
Are there any references (rules or manuals), which can confirm that there must be spaces inside quotes in other languages, except French? I could not find in web any confirmation for Italian and other languages, so I offer to remove all space values from the table, unless it is confirmed by any respected reference.--D.Ignashoff 07:03, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Table "Quotations that span multiple paragraphs" removed
"For quotations that span multiple paragraphs, besides the opening quotation mark in the first paragraph and the closing quotation mark at the end of the quotation..." — what does it mean? A construction like:
- Xxxxx xxxx: "Xxxxx.
- Xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx.
- Xxxxx". Xxxxx xxxxx.
Or what? I've never seen such construction, for ex. in Russian there can not be such one. In this case, the quotation should be moved to separate paragraphs. Like this, for example:
- Xxxxx xxxx:
- Xxxxx.
- Xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx.
- Xxxxx.
- Xxxxx xxxxx.
So I offer to remove this table at all, it just adds mishmash. Some usefull parts (if there are any) of it can be leaved in the main table (maybe there should be one more column added). Removed: For quotations that span multiple paragraphs, besides the opening quotation mark in the first paragraph and the closing quotation mark at the end of the quotation:
| Style | Signs | Languages |
|---|---|---|
| Corner brackets |
『…』 | Traditional Chinese, Japanese |
| 「…」 | Traditional Chinese, Japanese | |
| Double quote |
„…“ | Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, German, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Ukrainian |
| „…” | Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian | |
| ”…” | (Danish), Finnish, Swedish | |
| “…” | Catalan, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Korean (South Korea), Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish | |
| “…„ | Albanian, Greek, Hebrew | |
| Single quote |
‚…‘ | Czech, Danish, German, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian |
| ‚…’ | Afrikaans, Dutch, Polish, Romanian | |
| ’…’ | Dutch, Finnish, Swedish | |
| ‘…’ | Catalan, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, English, French, Irish, Italian, Turkish | |
| ‘…‚ | Albanian, Greek | |
| Double angled |
«…» | Albanian, Belarusian, Catalan, Estonian, French, Swiss (French, German, Italian), Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean (North Korea), Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Catalan |
| »…« | Croatian, Czech, Danish, German, Hungarian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene | |
| »…» | Finnish, Swedish | |
| Single angled |
‹…› | Albanian, French, Swiss (French, German, Italian), Greek, Lithuanian, Turkish |
| ›…‹ | Czech, Danish, German, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene | |
| ›…› | Swedish |
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by D.Ignashoff (talk • contribs) 08:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
Let us change it all to serif?
Is it possible to change general font-family to serif? You can not see the exact curved quote type, while it is marked with Arial. I've changed only the first table font-family for the beginning... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by D.Ignashoff (talk • contribs) 08:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
I would agree with this. The tables show the direction of the curve, but the text doesn't. However, I question whether every single baseline mark should be curving left. Wouldn't at least some of them be curving inward? Gilmer (talk) 12:45, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Terminology
The informal use of the word "quote" as a noun can be ambiguous, and should be avoided in an encyclopedic article. Please see my more detailed comments at Talk:Quotation mark#Terminology. —Michael Z. 2007-08-27 14:32 Z
Map
A geographical map (or maps?) would be interesting to show how neighbouring languages influence each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.23.218.230 (talk) 13:40, 17 December 2007 (UTC)