Re: @quotation and @indentedblock in html and DocBook

[Per Bothner]

On 12/20/2014 09:11 AM, Mahlon wrote:
> I agree with Karl on the issue of broadening the use of <blockquote>
> for indentation. The strength of having several block types is that
> each block type has its special characteristics: Indentation, font
> type inheritance/replacement, preformatting, font size. Maintaining
> this flexibility with wider use of the <blockquote> would necessarily
> mean deeper <div><style><span> nesting which could get complex.

Why?  No need to add a <div> - just emit a <blockquote>, with an optional
class=... attribute when we want to distinguish the kinds of <blockquote>.
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