On 1 Oct 2009, at 06:16, T. R. Valentine wrote:
Quotations which are more than one paragraph in length are supposed to get opening quotation marks for each paragraph and only a single closing quotation mark at the very end (in English). It does not seem this can be done using semantic markup, i.e. q tags. Is there some way to use q tags and get the UA to stop treating each paragraph as a new nested quote?
"Q is intended for short quotations (inline content) that don't require paragraph breaks"
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