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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
I think it’s ok to use blockquote for those things too, given that they are quotes from an outside source. Admittedly feels a little weird in conversation to “quote” a sign, but I think it does make some sense in a markup semantics context.
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That's how I felt as well, and was using it that way. But Tex2002ans gives that the thumbs down. W3schools gives the following as an example usage: <blockquote cite="http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/index.html"> and I think that the cite usage is meant to be an indication that it should really be a direct quote from some other source. I'm ok with being semantically fussy and so I made my "block" class.
But it's sort of funny; when I rework a Project Gutenberg book; they'll have all of those things that I use my block class for, letters, poems, etc. in a div and sometimes the div is in a blockquote, but it all has double quotes around it. I've taken to removing them since it's set off with indentation and obviously a "quote."