Re: adding commas to quote elements

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:15:05 +0300, Marek Mänd <cador.soft (AT) mail (DOT) ee>
wrote:

style type="text/css"
q:after{content:',"'}
/style

q>This will be the shame of CSS</q> claimed Marek Mänd and added that
q>consumers expect to create generated content via CSS where there
would be no comma right after HERE</q

It's too late in the evening for riddles; what are you getting at?

--
Rex

Marek Mänd <cador.soft (AT) mail (DOT) ee> wrote:

Jan Roland Eriksson wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:15:05 +0300, Marek Mänd <cador.soft (AT) mail (DOT) ee
wrote:
style type="text/css"
q:after{content:',"'}
/style
q>This will be the shame of CSS</q> claimed Marek Mänd and added that
q>consumers expect to create generated content via CSS where there
would be no comma right after HERE</q
It's too late in the evening for riddles; what are you getting at?


I want comma added before "claimed" but not comma added after HERE.

So put in a comma.

I dont want to use classnames.
If after quote end tag there is no opening tag, but a textnode
I want to add comma so it becomes

"This will be the shame of CSS," claimed

If after quote end tag there is no texnode following,
or there is a closing tag of the outer element or
there is new opening tag
I want to add fullstop. And fullstop after the "-quotes
but comma inside the "-quotes.

And do that with css generated content. That the browser itsself will
have the intelligence to add commas for me.

Commas in quotations aren't any more a function of CSS than commas
anywhere else, or any other punctuation marks. I suspect that you're
getting the idea that it *would* be from what you've read about using
CSS for the quotation marks, but *that* was really just a bunch of
silliness in the first place. If markup and CSS were appropriate for
punctuation, then HTML ought to have contained the full compliment of
structural elements that involve punctuation: <sentence>,
<relative-clause>, <exclamation>, etc. To have just one construct
that's supposed to automate the punctuation for you, while leaving the
rest of it to be handled directly in the text, was absurd.

I think this is far beyound the capabilities of css but I need
confirmation for that.

It is.

--
Harlan Messinger
Remove the first dot from my e-mail address.
Veuillez ôter le premier point de mon adresse de courriel.

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:40:29 +0300, Marek Mänd <cador.soft (AT) mail (DOT) ee>
wrote:

Jan Roland Eriksson wrote:

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:15:05 +0300, Marek Mänd <cador.soft (AT) mail (DOT) ee
wrote:
style type="text/css"
q:after{content:',"'}
/style
q>This will be the shame of CSS</q> claimed Marek Mänd and added that
q>consumers expect to create generated content via CSS where there
would be no comma right after HERE</q

It's too late in the evening for riddles; what are you getting at?

I want comma added before "claimed" but not comma added after HERE.

So, use appropriate markup that will parse itself into a usable
structure for your stylesheet to work on.

This, what you are asking about (now), is as simple as pi.

--
Rex

"Marek Mänd" <cador.soft (AT) mail (DOT) ee> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

I want comma added before "claimed" but not comma added after HERE.
I dont want to use classnames.

And you shouldn't. The comma is content, not presentation. If it
belongs in your text, it belongs in your text _not_ slipped in by
CSS.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/