It may look like a minor difference, but I'm trying to put quotation marks between single quotes, e.g.
‘“go away” he said’
but ''' results in
“‘go away” he said’
which is not what I want...
2 Answers
Explaining comment by @Andrew Swann
The package csquotes can help dealing with nested quotes and quoting styles in different languages.
For example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[autostyle,english=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}
In English: \enquote{\enquote{Go away}, he said.}
\selectlanguage{russian}
На русском: \enquote{\enquote{Пошёл прочь!} --- сказал он}
\end{document}
This gets you following document:
Notice that Russian and English text has the same markup, but different presentation.
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never the less its not what the Question Starter wanted. We would like to achieve those quotes like this SINGLE DOUBLE DOUBLE SINGLE. What you did gives him the normal DOUBLE SINGLE SINGLE DOUBLE.– RicoJun 20, 2013 at 9:34
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2Changing
english=americantoenglish=britishdoes the right thing. Fixed it in the answer. Jun 20, 2013 at 9:39 -
The simplest way is to add a pair of curly braces between the first and second backtick, which tells LaTeX to split them as a single, followed by a double. That is, write
`{}``Go away'', he said'
as opposed to
```Go away'', he said'
You get the following result:
answered Jun 20, 2013 at 8:17
`{}``csquotespackage and its command\enquotewhich nests correctly.csquotesdoes not support it out if the box, because what he wants to do gives an unbalanced combination of\enquoteand\enquote*