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How do I type a Chinese dash in XeLaTex
How do I write a Chinese dash, a two-fullwidth-character long dash?
「——」 looks ugly typset with XeLaTex and the font that I am using (The two parts are not connected and there is a gap in the ...
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What is the difference between the hyphen-like characters #45 and #127 from the T1 encoding?
What is the difference between the symbols with decimal indices #45 and #127 from the T1 encoding? Character #45 seems to be the ordinary hyphen, but what about #127? The en-dash and em-dash are at ...
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How to define a new command for guillemets marks [duplicate]
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babel shorthand "| doesn’t work in macros
I would like to define a new command for guillemets marks. I know how to obtain them in LaTeX and those I would like to ...
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List of mostly all quotation marks used [duplicate]
I'm seeking of a list of quotation marks used in different language. So far I found only this wiki-page. But there is only the marks itself in Unicode.
I know about csquotes package. I just want to ...
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What is the symbol to join two personal names? [duplicate]
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Dashes: - vs. – vs. —
I don't know if here is the best place to ask, but my question involves three symbols, so here we go:
What symbol should I use to connect two ...
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adaptive \ldots with no (“…”) spacing
Due to the typographic traditions I'm used to, I prefer my \ldots to have no spacing in between, ideally exactly the same amount as in text. In math mode I would like to write things like \(1, 2, ...
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«» resemble too much \ll \gg
I am typesetting a translation of some ancient poetry book from another language (namely Finnish). In the text there are several quotes which uses the Guillemets (« and »).
Since I am using a UTF-8 ...
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How to make apostrophes appear normally when copy-pasting from a MS Word document?
I have a report written in MS Word which I would like to turn into a LaTeX document. I copy-pasted the content of the document in my LaTeX editor (TeXShop, LaTeX, pdfTeX) and everything comes out fine ...
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zero-width Quine corners
I would like to create symbol pairs that
can be used like quotation marks (spacing-wise)
look like Quine corners (roughly: \ulcorner ... \urcorner) or Japanese quotation marks (roughly: \ulcorner ...
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What is the LaTeX command for “em dash” (—)?
I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command?
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Less pointy angle brackets
I was looking for a way to beautifully display UML stereotype titles including angle brackets like you can see here:
What I came up with is $\mathtt{\ll metaclass\gg}$, however, as you can see here
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How does one display straight quotes in the normal font?
From this code:
\subsubsection{General Escaping Format}
Generally, escaping MUST be done in a manner similar to most programming
languages, such as C, C++, Java, or similar, for quoted string ...
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How can I get my ellipses formatted correctly in XeTeX?
I've been using \dots and \ldots to try to get ellipses happening.
Ellipses should look like this: Some text . . . and then some more text.
But instead they look like this: Some text ...and some ...
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2answers
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How do I ensure a single character for \ldots
How do I ensure that \ldots comes out in the PDF as a single character?
I'm formatting a document for a publisher, who has given this condition in its formatting rules, but I do not know how I can do ...
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Ellipsis with a period/fullstop
While quoting how ellipsis should be used if few sentences are omitted in between. (ommissions are not clauses or words or phrases, but sentences). For example if there is a passage like: This is a ...
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Which dot character to use in which context?
Wikipedia lists several dot characters in Unicode. These are the ones that are ambiguous to me:
interpunct, middle dot (·) · · U+00B7 "midpoint (in typography)"
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Escape “> and <”
I have the following piece of text which I want to output literally: <<"Welcome">>. However it's converted to those funky quotations. I've been trying all sorts of things with \ mostly but ...
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Changing “-” to \textendash
I have a large LaTeX document, where hyphens are typeset with a single dash ("-") throughout. In my font, this shows up as a bold and vertically slightly off-center blob, but I'd like it to look like ...
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A big thick question mark
I'm using \ding{52} and \ding{56} from the pifont package to get nice satisfying thick ticks and crosses. I'd like a question mark ? that fits with these. \textbf{?} is too small, and not thick ...
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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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4answers
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Why do the less than symbol (<) and the greater than symbol (>) appear wrong as upside down exclamation (¡) or question mark (¿)?
When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode.
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What is the best way to use quotation mark glyphs?
There are several types of quotation marks in the English language (and in other languages there are even more). There are also several ways in LaTeX to represent these. I have seen editors, that are ...
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