Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Juergen> But since the list doesn't feature all languages of LyX: How > Juergen> about sending this list to the translators (and maybe to > Juergen> lyx-users) so they can comment (on inner quotes), correct > and Juergen> add? > > I'll do that once I have a framework in place.
Good! > Juergen> In German you use inner quotes for quotations in quotations, > Juergen> and the inner quotes are always the single quotes - ,,quote > Juergen> ,inner quote` quote`` - »quote >inner quote< quote« > > So it means that we should provide two kinds of quoting for german... > Is one sort more common than the other? In this case, we would > provide one as default and let people override it. ,,quote`` is more common, this should be the default IMHO. > Juergen> but of course single quotes are used in other contexts, too > Juergen> (as distance-markes; the so called ,distance markers`) > > What's that? Would using inner-quotes for that be acceptable, or is > ,distance markers` used also in cases where >inner quote< is used? No, it's used outside quotations. If I do not quote from a source. Its function could be described as: I use a term with which I do not fully agree, but it's no quotation (but it's the same typographic symbol of course). E..g.: People talking a lot about ,War against Terrorism`these days. (irritating, isn't it? ;-) Basically, we should provide two possibilities (at least for German): (1.) Inner quote: I have used an opening double quote and use a second (third etc.) quote, this should be a single quote. (2.) Distance Marker: Possibility to insert single quotes (outside double quotes) via a keybinding. Personally I need this very often, because I use double quotation marks only for quotations and single quotation marks as ,distance markers` (which is typographically correct for German). I can do this currently by entering the Document -> Language dialog (which is not very comfortable) and by using Commas and Accents (,...`) which does not exactly give the correct typographical output and does not work for >...<. > It seems that this quote business is rather complicated :( Yes. I guess you could start a nice debate about that on etc.text.misc ;-) Jürgen > JMarc
