{punctuation} is for questions involving the typesetting of punctuation marks. If your question relates to punctuation in particular document parts such as e.g. bibliography formatting or section formatting you should also add the appropriate tag for that topic.
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Comma-separated list environment
This question is somewhat of a follow up to an answer to a previous question (http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/11587/13522).
I would like to create a list environment (similar to itemize and enumerate) ...
20
votes
1answer
207 views
Why do ``` and ''' produce outputs with different spaces?
Why do
```
and
'''
produce outputs with different spaces?
\documentclass{article}
\parindent=0pt
\begin{document}
Input:
\begin{verbatim}
```\\
'''
\end{verbatim}
Output:
```\\
'''
...
4
votes
1answer
178 views
Ellipses & Correct Space Factor
I’m trying to use the Unicode ellipsis character (U+2026 ‘…’) in my source files. To this end, I’m looking for an ellipsis macro which I can use with newunicodechar.
The trouble is, I’ve noticed, ...
14
votes
3answers
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en dash and em dash spacing
I've noticed that en dashes and em dashes run into certain numbers and letters, and I don't believe it's standard to use spaces with these. For example, if a 'b' comes before the dash or a '6' comes ...
2
votes
1answer
172 views
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 ...
5
votes
1answer
223 views
Special punctuation marks
Is there an easy way to render special punctuation marks present in some fonts, such as double question mark, double exclamation mark, or interrobang?
Also, is there a font (preferably open-source) ...
15
votes
3answers
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German-style quotation marks too close to italics letters and mathpazo font package
When I type an text in italic with the Palladio font the German quotation marks are (far) too close to the letters. The problem does not occur with English quotation marks.
Is there any solution or ...
3
votes
4answers
322 views
Disabling interword spacing for periods following capital letters
By default, LaTex inserts a longer, intersentence space after a period. The exception is if the period follows a capital letter, in which case an interword space is assumed. This thread describes ...
5
votes
1answer
269 views
A comma decimal separator that is bigger than a dot
\documentclass{mwrep}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
Check:\\
with "," $0,125$\\
with "." $0.125$
with commas:
\begin{equation}
P=
\begin{bmatrix} 0,1 & 0,3 & 0,0 & 0,6 \\
...
4
votes
1answer
141 views
How to avoid superfluous punctuation for shorthand in bibliography?
I would like to have the shorthand printed in the bibliography in square brackets before the bibliography item. I adapted this answer by lockstep which works with one problem: if there is no author, ...
15
votes
2answers
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Defining \xthinspace: Thin space only if not followed by certain characters
Following this 2005 thread from the XeTeX list, I’ve defined a \spaceddash command and assigned it to the Unicode em-dash character U+2014 “—”:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
5
votes
2answers
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Spacefactor & Unicode Curly Quotes
Unicode curly quotes seem not to have the correct space factor. Consider the following minimal example (not using french spacing):
\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Or ...
14
votes
1answer
275 views
Why should I use -- in pages field of a BibTeX entry?
In most BibTeX entries I found on the internet a page range in the page field is separated by a double hyphen --. Why should I use a double dash and not a single one -?
@misc{blub,
title="blah",
...
4
votes
1answer
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stops become blank squares in cjhebrew
The following code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{cjhebrew}
\begin{document}
\begin{cjhebrew}
hd .
\end{cjhebrew}
\end{document}
Generates the correct hebrew letters, but the stop ...
1
vote
2answers
262 views
newtheorem report class with `part' as reset counter
Sorry i have no MWE for this question.
I have a .dtx class and looking at the diff between a previous "good" version and the present i have, there is nowhere some recollection about what exactly is ...
5
votes
1answer
405 views
Linking quotation environment with citation styles
I was just wondering if it is possible to combine citation commands (preferably of biblatex) with quotation environments.
The reason is this:
In German language papers you often have two choices ...
12
votes
1answer
175 views
Avoiding dot in true single-character middle name (abbrv-style)
One of my co-author's name has the pattern "Aaaa B Ccccc", where (due to transcription from Chinese) the "B" is indeed a single character (part of the given name). Now BibTeX (in abbrv-style) likes to ...
3
votes
3answers
864 views
An extra dot after section counter while numbering equations
My sections are numbered with a dot after counter. I get it like this
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}.}
I also need the equations to be numbered within sections and I try to do it like ...
14
votes
5answers
312 views
Hyphenation problem with — versus \textemdash
While investigating problems with hyphenation and em-dashes, I came across this:
a piece---perhaps an installation---, involving structural feedback
The document class is article. The problem was ...
7
votes
3answers
377 views
Remove comma after title ending with questionmark
I am using a bit modified bibtex style but with quite common base. It is based on utphys 2.7 which is based on "IEEE Transactions bibliography style (29-Jan-88 version)"
I'd like to remove comma ...
0
votes
2answers
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Force printing of parentheses around a single character in math mode [closed]
Although this is not strictly mathematical notation, I would like to denote an object with a calligraphy capital T and subscript non-italic P. I have this:
...
3
votes
1answer
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problem with biblatex-chem bundle, babel, and inbook entry
I'm writing my thesis in French, and thus use the package babel. I have chosen the "chem-angew" bibliography style, and all is good so far, except for citations of chapters in books.
Here is my bib ...
3
votes
2answers
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What kind of dash is used before a quote attribution?
In this quote example:
“Planning your video is the first step.”
-Christine Cloud, Producer
Should the name be preceded by an em dash, or a swung dash?
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votes
2answers
668 views
Is there a way to automatically change kerning between commas/full stops and footnote marks?
This question led to a new package:
fnpct
Following up on my question on the kerning of footnote marks after punctuation marks, I'd like to know if there is a way to achieve the kerning of ...
12
votes
2answers
2k views
How to properly typeset footnotes/superscripts after punctuation marks?
I find the spacing of footnote marks after punctuation marks quite unsatisfactory, especially with sans serif fonts and compared to the spacing after letters. Example follows:
I came up with a ...
-1
votes
1answer
298 views
Comma sign in Bibliography [closed]
I am using
\documentclass[a4paper 12pt]{article}
and
\bibliographystyle{unsrt}
to write a report. The problem i am facing is that latex is not putting comma between the author names in my ...
31
votes
3answers
1k views
How to properly typeset all forms of punctuation used in English-language documents?
English documents tend to use these types of punctuation:
periods
apostrophes
brackets of various kinds
colons and semicolons
commas
dashes and hyphens
ellipsis
exclamation and question marks
...
3
votes
1answer
169 views
Which spacing after a semicolon following acronym?
Similar to my previous question, I have a few sentences ending ACRONYM; word.
chktex recommends I insert intersentence spacing (ACRONYM\@; word). I can't find a decent reference to explain why an ...
25
votes
1answer
691 views
When should I use intersentence spacing (`\@')?
I've got a sentence that ends on an acronym:
blah blah WORD. Next sentence blah
Running this through chktex, I'm informed that:
Warning 13 in ./file.tex line 9: Intersentence spacing (`\@') ...
16
votes
3answers
508 views
Range of Dates (1999-01 — 2012-12)?
How to typeset range expressed with dash of two ISO8601 dates ?
2010-01--2012-03
or
2010-01---2012-03
or another option ?
5
votes
2answers
399 views
How to break long word containing symbols but with no hyphen?
Below is my minimum working example:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
...
3
votes
2answers
396 views
How to have an amsart-like subsection style
If you use the amsart class, then it puts a period after the subsection title, but not if there is no title. For example, if I write
\subsection{Title}
Blah1
\subsection{}
Blah2
Then amsart ...
2
votes
1answer
528 views
Matrix in an align environment
I'm currently writing on my masters thesis and I have a question about matrices at the end of a sentence.
I write my matrix as a pmatrix in an align environment. Actually the matrix is at the end of ...
26
votes
2answers
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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?
14
votes
1answer
459 views
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, ...
2
votes
1answer
474 views
Punctuation between authors in bibliography?
I am finalizing my doctoral dissertation in LaTeX, and before printing my university has some very specific requirements regarding the formatting of the references section. Using makebst I have been ...
9
votes
2answers
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Straight quotes?
How do I get a straight quote instead of curly quotes? I’m not inside verb or listing or any other special environments, and I’m not using XeLaTeX or anything—just normal LaTeX. I don’t want to change ...
4
votes
1answer
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autopunctuation not working properly
What am I doing wrong? According to my understanding, these two formulae should look different (the second one should have a thin space):
\setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes]
\starttext
$(2,5)$ ...
6
votes
1answer
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authblk footnote marks before/atop commas
The authblk package, in footnoted mode, puts footnote marks inside commas ("Alice1,") which is bad typography. Is there any way to persuade it to put the footnote marks outside the commas ...
8
votes
2answers
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Quote marks are backwards (using texmaker/PDFLatex) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best way to use quotation mark glyphs
Automatically convert quotations in the form of “abc” to become ``abc"
I am (obviously) new to LaTeX and ...
7
votes
2answers
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Big quotes drawn with TiKz does not compile
My problem
Sorry to give such a long code but my problem appears in it.
I don't see why the first long code given below does not work : more precisely, the problem comes from the big quotes drawn ...
2
votes
1answer
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mathptmx gives me commas in the wrong font
When I use mathptmx, it gives me commas in computer modern not times roman. Anyone know how to fix this anomaly?
Compile this to see the difference:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
...
1
vote
1answer
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Changing the colon to a comma after the vol.(num.) in bst file
I need to change the format in the .bst file that I am using. The format currently as:
Beth, T. and Gollmann, D. (1989). Algorithm Engineering for Public Key
Algorithm. IEEE Journal on selected ...
3
votes
1answer
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Using quotation marks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically convert quotations in the form of “abc” to become ``abc"
I have a Microsoft Word document whose text I have copied into a LaTeX document. One ...
10
votes
1answer
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Old-style figures: Use in references/brackets (e.g. to equations, bibliography) or not?
In my documents I usually use old-style figures for "non-mathematical" numbers. By this I mean for example dates, page numbers, telephone numbers and the like. For tables, results of equations etc. I ...
21
votes
4answers
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Is there a special hyphen-symbol to be used between capital letters?
In words consisting of small letters, the - hyphen seems right. In words (abbreviations, acronyms) consisting of capital letters, the common hyphen appears (at least imho) to be placed too low and to ...
10
votes
4answers
755 views
Automatically convert quotations in the form of “abc” to become ``abc"
I did not know that latex had different symbol for opening and closing quotation marks. I've used it like "abc" every where and just realised that I really should have used ``abc". Is there anyway I ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
Backward opening quote in Mac
I am using Mac OS X, Standard US English Keyboard. I have written a full document using TeXShop. I have several double quote and single quote for single word or two words (not a quotation of many ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
Biblatex authoryear in brackets and with parenthesis around the year
I use square brackets around my citations (/parencite) from the answer to Biblatex, author-year, square brackets.
So now I have
[Doe 1995]
in text. But I would like to have
[Doe (1995)]
...
7
votes
2answers
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Typesetting single quotes
How can the single quote character be typeset as the ascii character ' in a LaTeX document?
For instance, consider the document:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
