cvs commit: doc/es_ES.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports chapter.sgml

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:13:12 +0100, Gábor Kövesdán <gabor at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas escribió:
>> Isn't <quote> a higher-level, semantic tag?
>>
>> I think we can convince jade to output &laquo; by tweaking the es_ES
>> DSSSL code, instead of using explicit tagging in the text itself :)
>
> I considered this before suggesting the current solution and I thought
> that <quote> didn't have a real semantic meaning in such uses, because
> it doesn't mean citation from an original text, it just means "quoted
> text" in those occurrences.

I think I know what you mean.  I tend to overuse `quotes' in my own
writing too, and I often have to go back, read what I wrote and replace
the superfluous quotes with the equivalent of <emphasis>.

> For example, if we had citations from FreeBSD or IT-related books, it
> would be a loss of semantic information then, but while we use it for
> quoting special terms I consider this an acceptable solution. But this
> is just my opinion and apart from this, it would be nice to modify the
> DSSSL stylesheet to have these latin quotation marks at default.

Ok :)