Re: ?book end? or <enclosing characters> in most languages?

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 10:52:38 EDT

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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.

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