Re: smart quotes in docbook - GDP handbook

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:58 +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> > When straight quotes (U+0022) are required by some
> > syntax,
> > the quote element should absolutely, positively not
> > be used.
> 
> > Joachim, can you go ahead and make this change in
> > CVS?
> 
> Done.
> 
> I wanted to add a link to the crossreferencing section
> from the basic docbook section, and while tidying up
> markup I found a bug in Yelp with displaying
> blockquote elements. [1]
> Is it ok to commit changes that use blockquote or
> should I wait till that bug is fixed?
> 
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330371

The blockquote element, like the quote element, should only
be used for actual quotations, not for any other block of
text.  I don't think there's any place in the Handbook where
blockquote is called for, though I may be misremembering.
If you're showing block fragments of XML, use programlisting.

But the blockquote bug you pointed out is still a bug.
I'll look into it.

--
Shaun