quotes (was: Re: [OS X TeX] a suggestion)

[Alex Hamann]

actually, you can avoid messing with quotes if you use the nifty  
little csquotes package. Easy global formatting and nice options for  
a variety of languages.

alex


Am 03.03.2008 um 09:25 schrieb Charilaos Skiadas:

> This brings up something that it's best to bring to ludwik's  
> attention as early as possible. To get quotes the right way in  
> LaTeX, you need to use the backtick ` for the left quote, and the  
> regular quote symbol ' for the right quote. If you want double  
> quotes, you want to use two of these ``like this''. If you use  
> "this", then you'll see in your resulting pdf that both quotes face  
> the same way, not what you want usually.
>
> Depending on what language you write in, there are special ways to  
> produce the proper quotes in that language, but I'll leave that to  
> others who write in languages other than English.
>
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
>
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:00 AM, Louis Talman wrote:
>
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>> On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:10 PM, ludwik kowalski wrote:
>>
>>> Most Americans know that "one\index{Alaska}" was purchased from  
>>> "two\index{Russia}" in 1867 before the discovery of
>>
>> Eliminate the quotes.  The code should be
>>
>> Most Americans know that Alaska\index{Alaska} was purchased from  
>> Russia\index{Russia} in 1867 before the discovery of
>>
>> As you know, when I want to write about the word "word", I must  
>> quote it.  So when I want to write about the code
>>
>> Alaska\index{Alaska}
>>
>> in-line, I should write "Alaska\index{Alaska}".  (And, in fact,  
>> there should be single quotes around that quoted code...)
>>
>> Look carefully at the typeset paragraph you reported in your note  
>> of 2047 PST.  It says "Most Americans know that was purchased from  
>> in 1867...".  The words "Alaska" and "Russia" are missing.  Now  
>> replace
>>
>> \index{Alaska}
>>
>> with
>>
>> Alaska\index{Alaska}
>>
>> and go through the whole compilation, make index, double  
>> compilation cycle again.  Look carefully at the typeset paragraph.
>>
>> Note the lack of a space between
>>
>> Alaska
>>
>> and
>>
>> \index{Alaska}
>>
>> That keeps LaTeX from deciding to put a page break between the  
>> two, and thus throwing the page entry in the
>> index off by one.
>>
>>
>> --Lou Talman
>>   Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
>>   Metropolitan State College of Denver
>>
>>   <http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
>>
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