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Quotation is a semantic element. It's... well, it's the thing that the quoted text is. You know what I mean ;)
Indentation is a typographical element. It can mean a million things, inlcuding "just indentation" alone too (for example when explaining what indentation is). What it actually is depends partially on the tradition, but mostly on the context and style of the particular author (or style shared in the particular wiki community).
Of course, quotation also has to be marked somehow -- usually with quotes or italics or indentation. Sometimes with monospaced font, different color, different background or some graphical symbol.
Now, there is a dillema. Should we provide markup for meanings, and relieve the users from the burden of inventing presentation for them, or should we only provide the tools, and allow users to do whatever they want with them, incuding sawing off the branch on which they sit?
If we decide to provide semantic markup **only**, it will inevitably be misused in creative ways -- to make up those parts of semantic markup that we missed or that the user doesn't know (or doesn't care about).
If we decide to only provide presentational markup, then we burden the users with decissions on how to use it, encourage communities to form their own, secret meta-markup, and end up with a bunch of pages that look ok until you try to change something on them.
I believe that the answer, as usual, lies in the middle. Now where exactly -- **that** we need to decide. How? I don't know.
I shall note that if we provide two markups, for quotations and for indentation, and they happen to be rendered the same on a particular wiki, there is a high probability that they will be used interchangeably. I'd like to avoid that.
-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-02-09
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