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Style Notes

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              {Italics}
              {Quotes marks, etc}




Italics

The oddest thing (textually speaking ;) about the use of
Italics for "foreign language" phrases is that (when you 
think about it (even with a Babel fish stuck in your ear),
after all), isn't English a foreign language? So, shouldn't
*everything* be in italics?

Well, maybe not maths equations -- after all, maths is hardly
a language, although to most humans (see map) it is
foreign.



Quotes marks, etc

The most common use of quotes marks is to denote conversation,
for example:

  Incoherently he said, "Dias eh? Y'lt nere Hocni!"

(which is a palendrome).

Further for short quotes, one uses quotation marks; eg,

   "In January, 1949, Tristano recorded with Metronome
All Stars for Victor. One of the tunes, Victory Ball
is his, based on the chords of S'wonderful. Charlie
Parker plays the devil out of Tristanon's line, and both 
men's solos show that despite the differences in their 
music, their styles were compatible."  [Ira Gitler, 
"the masters of bebop - a listener's guide", 2001 edition,
P. 236]

Note the use of italics in the titles of the
various musical pieces referenced.

A problem that occurs is when a quotation contains
conversation, one "attempt" to deal with the problem 
involves using the appostroflea instead of the quotes
mark, but as Marvin might well say, "It can only end
in disaster". [h2g2 reference]

The alternative is the BLOCK QUOTE. Traditionally this has
been used by indenting and cutting the line-length down. 
Often, a different type face, or at least a smaller font
was used. Of course if one is hard of seeing (;), this 
presents a problem. The tradtional view is given by
the following (not the introductory line).

Ira Gitler continues:

   Tristano says of Bird, "The finest person I knew, 
   extremely hip. I met him for the first time at 
   the Three Duces in 1947. The bandstand was all 
   mixed up. He came up and helped me off the stand.
   We always talked music together when we'd meet."
   [Op. Cit, P.236]

For a larger example of BLOCK QUOTATIONS (in newSpeak)
refer to:  [Harvey Pekar [Is that Jazz? The 'J' texts]