Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-09-08/Dispatches 2
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The advice to use templates for multiple quotation marks was toned down within a day: it now reads.
- When a quotation includes another quotation (and so on), start with double-quotes outermost and working inward, alternate single-quotes with double-quotes. For example, the following three-level quotation: "She disputed his statement that 'Voltaire never said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."'" Adjacent quote marks, as at the end of this example, can be difficult to read (e.g.: "'") unless kerned apart slightly with CSS; the {{" '}}, {{' "}} and {{" ' "}} templates will accomplish this; the example above is output by
...your right to say it.{{" ' "}}
in edit space. Extraneous normal or non-breaking space (
) characters between the quotation marks should not be used; Wikipedia presents quotations, character for character, exactly as in the original.
Please emend. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:26, 17 September 2008 (UTC)