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<q>

quoted

contains material which is distinguished from the surrounding text using quotation marks or a similar method, for any one of a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from elsewhere, and passages that are mentioned but not used.

Module coreCOHQQ

Attributes

@typemay be used to indicate whether the offset passage is spoken or thought, or to characterize it more finely.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Suggested values
spoken
(spoken) representation of speech
thought
(thought) representation of thought, e.g. internal monologue
written
(written) quotation from a written source
soCalled
(so called) authorial distance
foreign
(foreign) foreign words
distinct
(distinct) linguistically distinct
term
technical term
emph
(emph) rhetorically emphasized
mentioned
(mentioned) refering to itself, not its normal referent

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

linking

spoken

tagdocs

Note

May be used to indicate that a passage is distinguished from the surrounding text for reasons concerning which no claim is made. When used in this manner, q may be thought of as syntactic sugar for hi with a value of @rend that indicates the use of such mechanisms as quotation marks.

Example

It is spelled 
<q>Tübingen</q>
 — to enter the
letter
<q>u</q>
 with an umlaut hold down the 
<q>option</q>
 key and press 
<q>0 0 f c</q>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
  </content>