Re: Pref - character for quoted text

[Alistair Vining]

Stuart Ballard wrote:
> 
> Thus, I am proposing that :every-line be implemented for block-level,
> non-replaced elements only, and should support only the :before and
> :after sub-pseudo-elements. The style for :before and :after should be
> based on the style for the block-level element that :every-line is
> attached to, and ignore styles on inline elements within the block.

But this spoils one of the more interesting uses, which is to support
the style of French (and early printed) quotation which does something
similar, so that:

If you begin a � quotation which
� spans several lines, then a guillemet
� should be placed at the start of
� lines which follow. � like that.

In early printed books, the quotation marks were sometimes in the
margin.  The �ber-TeX "Omega" project does this with \localleftbox{},
\localrightbox{} commands.

Real-world uses?  Oops, must be in the wrong newsgroup.

Al.