User talk:Xover/Archives/2018

You could try ...
Hi, just noticed the frustration with the passage with a running left margin quote mark. If you want to set off the passage, you could try quote. An example where I've used it is Page:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 3.djvu/86. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 09:31, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip. I'll keep it in mind for future needs. But in this case the problem was mainly that after pages upon pages of block prose quotation, Hazlitt's reproduction of North's translation of Plutarch begins intermixing prose and dialogue. Since we can't sanely reproduce the row of single quote marks in the left margin, and the dialogue stuff is too long for just pairs of single quote marks at start and end, it needs some other typographic way to set it off. I don't particularly like using italics that aren't present in the original, but in this case I think it's a reasonable compromise when we can't be fully semi-diplomatic. --Xover (talk) 10:50, 8 August 2018 (UTC)