{csquotes} is a package for making context-sensitive inline and display quotations.
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What's the advantage of using csquotes over using an editor's auto-replacement for "?
Many editors (TeXnicCenter, Texmaker, TeXworks, ...) offer auto-replacement of " by the desired form of quotation marks, be it `` and '' for English, "` and "' for German, or whatnot. Usually, I know ...
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Replace “quotes” with „quotes“?
I live in a funny part of the world where we're required to quote text like this: „quotes“ (note the difference between the opening and closing quote).
Is there an easy way to set up a LaTeX document ...
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Three quotation levels for csquotes
The recommended way of solving nested quotations in Norwegian is to use «» for the outer level and then alternating between ‘’ and “”. (Source)
Is it a large undertaking to do this with csquotes?
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Guillemets in LaTeX («»)
I need the characters «» in my LaTeX document. I'm writing in English though, and I don't want to use Babel. I have the following hack but I'd like a better way:
\newcommand{\q}[1]{{%
\font\larm = ...
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Wrong protrusion with csquotes and microtype
I’m experiencing problems using the csquotes package and microtype using protrusion (margin kerning). The problem is that using \enquote I only get margin kerning on the left margin.
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Is it possible to make automatic multiple citations with csquotes and biblatex?
I'm using csquotes package with biblatex. There is a number of citations that require multiple references, which can be introduced with the \autocites command --- e.g. second hand citations (“cited ...
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How to fix kerning of comma/colon after quotes?
How to fix kerning of comma/colon after quotes?
Hello, I’m a relative newbie in latex and am trying to reduce the space between closing quotes and colon/comma, but by a general way in the preamble, ...
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Setting up RefTeX with biblatex citation commands
How do I setup RefTeX with biblatex's citation commands? In Workflow for managing references? Seamus describes a workflow with RefTeX and mentions that
it wouldn't be too tricky to add \autocite ...
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\emph vs. \mkbibemph and other things
I usually use the commands that come with biblatex (like mkbibemph, mkbibquote etc.) only in my bibliography.
What about using them in the text of my document? Should I do that? Are there any ...
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Quotations spanning multiple paragraphs in csquotes
I have a quotation which extends for multiple paragraphs. The literary convention is that there is no end-quote at the end of each paragraph, except for the last one.
However, this seems to be ...
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How to quote correctly with csquotes?
I am unsure how to quote correctly using csquotes and \textquote and \blockquote. In the documentation I found this general advise: \blockquote[cite][punct]{text}tpunct but am unsure how to really use ...
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\verb in csquotes
The following code gives me an error:
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{babel,csquotes}
\begin{document}
\enquote{\verb|foo|}
\end{document}
I guess this is the classic "you can't use ...
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Language sensitive italicized quotation with csquotes
In what follows:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt]{book}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\frenchbsetup{IndentFirst=false}
\begin{document}
text ...
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Using \selectlanguage with csquotes
As per this question, I am using csquotes to convert quotationmarks to typographical-quotes. However, when changing language through \selectlanguage the quotationmarks no longer gets converted. (I ...
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polyglossia adds extra kerning to csquotes
When I use csquotes with polyglossia, an extra kerning is added after the first quotation mark. \enquote{Werk} becomes „ Werk“, not „Werk“. This doesn't look nice, especially when you have a word ...
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How can I make AUCTeX spell check in the language specified by babel and csquotes macros?
It is possible to make AUCTeX load the spelling dictionary of the language which babel is loaded with. One further convenience would be for it to appropriately react to changes of language within a ...
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How to change paragraph separation to indent within blockquote (csquotes)
I am using the package csquotes to generate a blockquote. csquotes inserts what looks like half a blank line between the paragraphs within the quote.
I would prefer to have no vertical space but an ...
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How to avoid citations being placed on a new line when \blockcquote ends with a list?
When csquotes's \blockquote and displaycquote ends with a list the citation is put on the next line after the list rather than directly after the last list item. Can one force csquotes to place the ...
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Where can I find the old tutorial.tex from csquotes package?
I was researching a csquotes problem and I came across a reference to tutorial.tex. The file is no longer included in csquotes and I can not find any reference to the removal in the csquotes ...
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biblatex: sentence case and nested quotation marks
If a title contains formatting commands, how can we hook in \MakeSentenceCase to ensure correct casing and, say, nesting of quotation marks? The example below doesn't work; the quotes are properly ...
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csquotes and nested citations
It looks like the csquotes package does not allow nested citations such as
\foreignblockcquote{foreign language}[pre-note]
[post-note with citation \textcite{key2}]
{key1}[punctuation]{quoted ...
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One more time: leading before and after block quotes
I'm trying to re-define the quote environment (triggered by csquote's \blockquote) to remove the entire (!) additional leading before and after the quote, to make sure the quotes stays in sync with ...
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AUCTeX's csquotes integration does not work together with babel
I use the AUCTeX feature to expand " into csquotes macros. To enable it I have put the following in my .emacs:
;; " expands into csquotes macros
(setq LaTeX-csquotes-close-quote "}"
...
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Nice citation search in emacs for csquotes quotation (like reftex's C-c [)
When using emacs+reftex-mode I may hit "C-c [" and get a nice citation search menu for \cite command. Is there a way to get the same menu for csquotes' integrated quotations (e.g. \displaycquote)?
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Linebreak and \enquote
Using the \enquote{} command from the csquotes package my quotes seem to be wrapped to the next line a lot of times like this:
This is an "example
" sentence.
Without the extra whitespace.
Now ...
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Use \usetikzlibrary{quotes} with \MakeOuterQuote{"} from csquots
Is there a way to use (disable) \MakeOuterQuote{"} in tikz while using \usetikzlibrary{quotes}?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
%\MakeOuterQuote{"} %breaks tikz library
...
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quote exceeding quote right margins
I have a quote that displays long chains of words, such as
hippopotamus/hippo
The quote environment does not break words, so I have text exceeding the right margin of the quote. How can I ...
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Fancy cloud quote-Arithmetic overflow
I ws trying to make a fancy quote...(Any ideas?) I couldn't find annything, so I thought of using a cloud... My code is
\documentclass[slidestop,compress,mathserif,12pt,xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
...
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How to force csquotes to show the quotations marks in block quotes?
How can I force the csquotes package to always show quotations marks in my block quotes, regardless of the language etc...?
Tried this, but no cigar:
\usepackage{csquotes}[english=british] % ...
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Kile structure view wrongly displays argument of \enquote as argument of \input or \include [closed]
This is strictly not a TeX question but rather a kile question. So, please show me to the right forum if I am asking it in the wrong place here.
I have kile set up to display structure and ...
