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Consistency of quotation marks and quote tags #2

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ebeshero opened this issue May 26, 2023 · 1 comment
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Consistency of quotation marks and quote tags #2

ebeshero opened this issue May 26, 2023 · 1 comment

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ebeshero commented May 26, 2023

@Samwebb64, @ebeshero, @lmwilson suggest the following practice and editorial language:

When a print edition we are working with has rendered punctuation like commas inside of quotation marks, we position TEI tags to represent the semantics of the text and will silently alter the punctuation placement from the print edition.

This means that when Mitford uses so-called "scare quotes" around a phrase, like:

He was a "scholar," and a "gentleman," supposedly...

we will tag in this way:

He was a <soCalled>scholar</soCalled>, 
and a <soCalled>gentleman</soCalled>, supposedly...

This will be rendering in HTML like this:

He was a "scholar", and a "gentleman", supposedly...
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Note: We revised the above proposal as we discussed how to unify conventions across the project. We prioritize that the markup represents the semantics of Mitford's text in these cases rather than prioritize the uneven accidents of print typography.

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