Re^2: Enhancement request: add <Q> tag to Perl Monks Approved HTML

You mean inch-marks ("), right? There are no proper quotation marks on keyboards. They are language specific and accessed through alt+000s on PCs and option keys on Macs. :P Now, I dare you to call me pedantic! :P

I'd like to see <q></q> supported (document semantics help automatic parsing) but in spirit I agree with you: ASCII "quotes" and <i></i> are serviceable and clear to humans and <q></q> would not be used enough to actually do much automatic parsing .

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Re^3: Enhancement request: add <Q> tag to Perl Monks Approved HTML by LanX (Saint) on Feb 01, 2016 at 17:06 UTC
> They are language specific ... I silently implied this point, approx. 99.9 % of all posts here are in English and the referenced W3C section motivates the use of `<q>` for language specific adaptation which is not really relevant here. I'd rather prefer better support for the already available PM-markup. `<blockquote>` is nice for quotes from other sites, especially perldoc related, but not really for citing previous comments in a thread. (see how I tried to use "email style" for your comment) So the problem is rather that we'd need a multitude of markups to mark all semantically different kind of quotes ( "so called", "citation" , `code` , `perldoc`, ...) Furthermore `<code>` can't distinguish between perl-code (which might be highlighted) or other languages or cut and paste from the console.š Of course one could argue that all these markups, including `<q>` could be indicidually customized via CSS, but I doubt many monks really take advantage of manipulating their local CSS. update > You mean inch-marks ("), right? not only. there are different quotation marks, especially 'single quotes' Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} š) and it really sucks to paste code from the win console, b/c of all the useless whitespace breaking the format.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Enhancement request: add <Q> tag to Perl Monks Approved HTML
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 01, 2016 at 17:06 UTC

> They are language specific ...

I silently implied this point, approx. 99.9 % of all posts here are in English and the referenced W3C section motivates the use of <q> for language specific adaptation which is not really relevant here.

I'd rather prefer better support for the already available PM-markup.

<blockquote> is nice for quotes from other sites, especially perldoc related, but not really for citing previous comments in a thread.

(see how I tried to use "email style" for your comment)

So the problem is rather that we'd need a multitude of markups to mark all semantically different kind of quotes ( "so called", "citation" , code , perldoc, ...)

Furthermore <code> can't distinguish between perl-code (which might be highlighted) or other languages or cut and paste from the console.š

Of course one could argue that all these markups, including <q> could be indicidually customized via CSS, but I doubt many monks really take advantage of manipulating their local CSS.

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> You mean inch-marks ("), right?

not only. there are different quotation marks, especially 'single quotes'

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

Je suis Charlie!}

š) and it really sucks to paste code from the win console, b/c of all the useless whitespace breaking the format.

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