<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 not used. 3.3.3 Quotation
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Attributes [att.ascribed ]
typemay be used to indicate whether the offset passage is spoken or thought, or to characterize it more finely.
Status Required when applicable
Datatype
data.enumerated
Suggested values include:
spokenrepresentation of speech
thoughtrepresentation of thought, e.g. internal monologue
writtenquotation from a written source
soCalledauthorial distance
foreign(foreign words)
distinct(linguistically distinct)
term(technical term)
emph(rhetorically emphasized)
mentionedrefering to itself, not its normal referant
Declaration
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.
Contained by model.qLike
May contain