<q>

<q> (separated from the surrounding text with quotation marks) contains material which is marked as (ostensibly) being somehow different than the surrounding text, 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. 3.3.3 Quotation
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Attributes att.ascribed (@who)
typemay be used to indicate whether the offset passage is spoken or thought, or to characterize it more finely.
Status Required when applicable
Datatype

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>
data.enumerated
Suggested values include:
spoken
representation of speech
thought
representation of thought, e.g. internal monologue
written
quotation from a written source
soCalled
authorial distance
foreign
(foreign words)
distinct
(linguistically distinct)
term
(technical term)
emph
(rhetorically emphasized)
mentioned
refering to itself, not its normal referant
Used by
May contain
Declaration

<rng:element name="q">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.ascribed.attributes"/>
<rng:optional>
 <rng:attribute name="type">
  <rng:choice>
   <rng:value>spoken</rng:value>
   <rng:value>thought</rng:value>
   <rng:value>written</rng:value>
   <rng:value>soCalled</rng:value>
   <rng:value>foreign</rng:value>
   <rng:value>distinct</rng:value>
   <rng:value>term</rng:value>
   <rng:value>emph</rng:value>
   <rng:value>mentioned</rng:value>
   <rng:data type="Name"/>
  </rng:choice>
 </rng:attribute>
</rng:optional>
<rng:ref name="macro.specialPara"/>
</rng:element>
element q
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.ascribed.attributes,
   attribute type
   {
      "spoken"
    | "thought"
    | "written"
    | "soCalled"
    | "foreign"
    | "distinct"
    | "term"
    | "emph"
    | "mentioned"
    | xsd:Name
   }?,
   macro.specialPara
}
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>
Note
May be used to indicate that a passage is distinguished from the surrounding text by quotation marks 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 quotation marks.