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Quoting wasn't discussed yet. It's not even clear yet whether we need it in Creole.

There are two kinds of quotes, similar to two kinds of preformatted text. Inline quotes are made in HTML with <q> tags, block quotes with <blockquote>. The traditional rendering of these elements is:

  • enclosing in (localized) quote characters in case of <q> (not supported by MSIE)
  • indenting in case of <blockquote>>> (some e-mail readers also add a vertical bar along the text)

It would be good to allow specifying an (optional) source of the quotation, either in form of an URI, or just a comment containing title or other reference.

I'm not sure if this is really needed in Creole. Personally I use the inline quotes a lot in my blog-wiki, but that's just my personal style. One could use italics instead.

I use ,, to open the quote, and '' to close it, but maybe markup similar to the preformatted text markup, like """ could be used (with similar rules as to whether it's block or inline). A link immediatelly following the quote (without any whitespace or punctuation) could be used as source indication. Thus:

This is smaple paragraph. It conatins """an inline quote""". There
is also a block quote below it:

"""
This is a block quote.

This is a second paragraph of it.
"""[[http://my.quotes/blockquote|taken from my quotes]]

Yes, " is supposed to be not used. But it fits so well... -- RadomirDopieralski, 2006-09-22


Interesting idea, Radomir, as it resembles preformatted text and allows both inline and block quotes. I also like the idea of associating a "source" to a quote, better if not necessarily a link. But using " chararacters could create problems, as they're often converted to curly quotes in word processors.

From my personal point of view, quotes are fundamental. My target is more about forums and discussions than real wikis. But, after all, wouldn't a standard wiki syntax be great for those, also?

OLPC and Markdown have blockquotes, and they use >, too. Unfortunately, http://www.wikimatrix.org doesn't help to compare quote syntaxes.

-- MicheleTomaiuolo, 2006-09-22

This seems to be the most widespread and traditional use:


> This is a block quote.
> Every line of it begins with one or more > characters.
>
> Paragraphs withing it are separated with lines containing only the > characters and whitespace. Long lines wrap around making it hard to see where the quote ends.
> * Should lists also be supported inside quotes?
>> How about quutes inside quotes?
> -- Source can be indicated with standard e-mail signature mark.

-- RadomirDopieralski, 2006-09-22

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