Philippe Verdy scripsit: > French usage of these quotation marks is interesting: when a quotation > spans several paragraphs, each paragraph starts with a quotation mark, > but only the last one is terminated by the mirrored mark.
This is also the rule in English. However, it is usually only employed in fiction, when someone is making a long speech; in non-fiction works, actual quotations are usually block-indented instead. -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta www.reutershealth.com
