Questions tagged [csquotes]
{csquotes} is a package for making context-sensitive inline and display quotations.
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Issue with brackets ( using myblockquote)
I have an issue with the code. When I try to put multiples ( in my case 2 ou 3 ) \myblockquote. There are 2 more brackets that appear and the quote doesn't always start a new paragraph.
The code I use ...
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Can quotes made with \MakeAutoQuote made robust in a \ulem?
The following example gives the error ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup because of the »« in the \uwave command. Can the definition of the quotes be changed to avoid the error without loosing the ...
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French quotes and reference with csquotes and biblatex
I'm trying to configure csquotes so it can manage specific French quotation rules, with the footnote mark placed before the final punctuation mark (yes it's tricky) :
« This is a complete sentence1....
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How to cite only quoted page number to put after a quotion using biblatex
According to APA-style rules, a quoting page number should always appear after the quote itself.
using in text citations, this would look like:
Palladino and Wade’s (2010) results indicate that “...
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How to use \texquote and \citealp quotation with page number [duplicate]
When I use \textquote and \citealp with a reference to page number [p. 33] there is no right output. My expected result should be (Simonovits, 2003, p.33).
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\...
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How to use \textquote
I am trying to make a short quote using \textquote from the package csquotes:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[round]{natbib}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
Something before.
\textquote[{\...
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Upright […] in italics quotation
I've configured csquotes to show quotations in italics, but I want the output of \textelp to be in \textnormal shape. How can I accomplish this?
I thought it would be easy to just wrap \textelp but ...
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footnote/marginpar inside table inside csquotes blockquote
I need to put a table inside a blockquote, and the table has both footnotes and marginpars (I know, quite the convolution, but such is the manuscript I am transcribing).
The below version gives a ...
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Direct-speech alternative quotation in Italian
I am currently using quotmark with guillemots (standard Italian), but I would like to switch to "alternate" way to represent direct speech, which is (IMHO) much nicer.
direct speech starts with em-...
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lettrine in csquotes blockquote leaves empty space in subsequent paragraphs
I'm trying to put a big quotation mark as a lettrine in the opening of a blockquote.
This works, however if there are multiple paragraphs in the blockquote, the following paragraphs needlessly retain ...
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Use localized quotation marks, hyphenation and ponctuation in BibLaTeX using langid for entries title
What I get:
A. Author, « Some article title ? ». Whatever Journal.
B. Buthor, « Un article ? ». Another Journal.
What I would like:
A. Author, “Some article title?”. Whatever Journal.
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Formatting issues
With the following code:
\RequirePackage[
english,
ngerman]{babel}
\RequirePackage[
autostyle = true,
babel,
german = quotes]{csquotes}
\RequirePackage[
authordate,
...
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csquotes, hyperref and scrartcl produce multiple errors when \makeautoquote and \makeautoquote* are used
I am facing a weird error when compiling a document. I am working for some time now on this doc and faced these problems some time after updating my texlive 2018 installation via tlgmr.
This MWE ...
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TeX4ht generates double footnotes when footnote is defined inside of a csquotes blockquote
TeX4ht generates a double footnotes when a footnote is defined inside of a csquotes \blockquote.
Here is a LaTeX reproducible example:
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\...
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Polyglossia-Babelshorthands for quotes ignores csquotes formatting
For a larger book project containing two languages I use polyglossia with the babelshorthands option. For the German style quotes I used the shorthands "` (opening) and "' (closing). This worked ...
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Character choice for csquotes active quotes
We all know csquotes and the multiple facilities it provides for displaying quotations and related content. One feature I'm particularly fond of are the active quotes, using \MakeAutoQuote. That's ...
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Workaround for tabularx inside environment when using csquotes
I need an environment that presents data in a table. The number of right-most columns shall be adjusted at compile-time, and the first column is dynamic width. For this reason I am using \usepackage{...
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Mark unbalanced quotes in csquote
I'm using csquotes to type plain quotes using \MakeOuterQuotes.
Whenever it encounters an unbalanced quote it throws an error message (rightly so!)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[autostyle=...
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csquotes — How to customize/change blockquote features — indentation, fontsize, linewidth
Quotation requirements can be very variable and I've not found a way to adapt the csquotes standard for my puropse. For a thesis/paper it is required to fulfill following blockquotation standards:
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Italic correction in own quote commands from csquotes
I'm using the csquotes package and defined (with the help of this forum) three additional quotation commands for quoting ancient sources.
However, the italics correction seems to be missing. It's ...
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fnpct autocite causes whitespace problems with csquotes blockcquote
In the following example, using fnpct for the biblatex autocite command causes unwanted whitespace when a period occurs directly after the the quote.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{...
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\Cite equivalent for \textcquote
edit: on request of the immer polite and very helpful @mico
Author names should always start with a capital letter, My university requires names in citation call-outs to always start with a capital ...
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Quotations in math mode using \enquote command from csquotes package
I'm using the \enquote command from the csquotes package for setting quotes.
When I invoke quotations inside math mode,
either by hand
``<some math>''
or by enquote
\enquote{<some math>...
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Make " an active quote while including subfiles with spaces in their path
I'm preparing a book. There is a requirement that the individual sections are available as separate files, so I'm using the subfile package. I would really like to keep the ability to name my TeX ...
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Creating own block environment in csquotes
I'm trying to create my own blockquote environment in csquotes.
The \blockquoteQ command should behave like the normal \blockquote command but instead of typesetting the text upright and in quotation ...
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Get Emacs' electric quote mode to work with AUCTeX and BibTeX mode
I've grown fond of electric-quote-mode in Emacs as a convenient way to get curved quotes in my documents. However, I can't seem to get it to work with either AUCTeX or BibTeX mode.
I'm aware AUCTeX ...
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Quotation marks based on langid with biblatex
I use biblatex with the csquotes and the babel package. Sometimes words in titles are set in qoutation marks. Normally I use \enquote for quotation marks. I want the style of the quotation marks in ...
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\blockquote customization
For a group-project I am looking for an intuitive way to enter quotes into a document. I used this
\newlength{\cmfapaparindent} %neue Länge 'cmfapaparindent'
\setlength{\cmfapaparindent}{0.75cm}%...
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How to write text after a csquote-blockquote?
Consider this MWE
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\renewcommand\mkblockquote[4]{\leavevmode\llap{\textooquote}#1#2\textcoquote#4#3}
\begin{document}
Text ...
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Quotes in PDF bookmarks when using polyglossia
I am creating a multilingual document, using polyglossia. I would like to include quoted text in a section title, using csquotes, and I would also like to have a PDF bookmark tree in the final file, ...
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how do I use quote or quotation in traditionalTeX
I am trying to use \begin{quote} in traditional TeX and was wondering how this works. I have not been able to find an answer to it. Any suggestions are very welcome.
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Punctuation and text decoration - 'csquotes' not compatible with 'ulem' or 'soul'
I'm using TeX for a long time now, but I'm currently struggling integrating some features for my daily use. To be more precise: I'm intending to use features like text highlighting (yellow markup), ...
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How to tell csquotes to italicize quotes in blockquote?
I am using csquotes for adding quotations in my thesis and I need to italicize (make cursive) both the in-text quotes (short quotes) and the paragraph quotes (long quotes separated into indented ...
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Lyx can't find csquotes in TeXLive 2018, but I can
I have many lyx docs that use csquotes.
\usepackage{csquotes}
They worked fine with TeXLive 2017, but since upgrading to TeXLive 2018, I get the following error at load time:
TeX Live Utility set ...
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Duplicated entry from blockquotes and octavo class
The following code generates a duplicated entry in glossary, even though it is defined just once.
It is not necessary to run makeindex. Just pdflatex twice.
The package csquotes was used.
The ...
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macro to produce special quote marks (e.g. /word/) [closed]
I have a large text (> 300 pages) to edit in which words are often used as "word x" and not with their regular meaning. It is customary to mark such uses (often with ordinary quote marks or with /word/...
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displayquote environment question
I haven't found a proper thread in forum, nor fully understand directions in the csquote package manual.
How can I make some text stay in the left side as a "prequote", while the rest of it would ...
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Quotes face the wrong way with xepersian and csquotes
When I try to use csquotes along with xepersian, the quotation marks come out facing the wrong way (for right-to-left text).
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont{XB Niloofar}
\...
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Cyrillic font: Cursiva and single Guillemets
I am currently preparing a paper, which makes heavy use of Cyrillic fonts in footnotes. Now I encountered two problems: First, the actual font doesn't make use of Italics, although – as Microsoft ...
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glossaries and csquotes: how to use autoquotes in gls description?
I am trying to get csquotes's \MakeAutoQuote to work with glossaries - no luck so far. The defined autoquotes are simply not active anymore by the time the description is read.
Here is the MWE:
\...
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How can I fix active quote mark characters on update to TL 2018? [duplicate]
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
\MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
\begin{document}
Hylo
\end{document}
This code works fine with pdfLaTeX ...
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Formatting - \citetitle - dutch quotation style
In Dutch, we quote ``like this''
I usepackage{biblatex} which does autoquoting. When I \citetitle, I get „Title” but I need ``Title''
Who can help me hack \citetitle so the title becomes italic ...
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Spurious space for \path if in \enquote's argument in case of obeyspaces option
The following MCE points out a spurious space for url's \path if it is an argument of csquotes' \enquote in case of url's obeyspaces option.
Do you know what's going on?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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csquotes error (MakeAutoQuote)
After the last update of TeXLive 2018 (pretest) I get an error with csquotes' macro MakeAutoQuote:
\setcounter{errorcontextlines}{100}
\listfiles
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,paper=a4,pagesize,...
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Remove only right indent when using displayquote and csquotes
Problem:
Removing right indent when using displayquote in csquotes.
Minimal Working Example (MWE):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\renewcommand*\...
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Multi column block quote
I would like to quote from interview transcripts with multiple speakers. I want these quotes to be displayed in a single-spaced block quote format but I would like both the abbreviations of the ...
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Question marks appear around citation title [duplicate]
I have an issue with citation format. For some unknown reason I get question marks around the title in bibliography section. Here is an example:
[6] Thorsten Joachims. ?Text Categorization with ...
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Unbalanced quotes with csquotes (by design, not by mistake)
I'm trying to get the hang of csquotes and found a situation that I'm not being able to work around.
Suppose the following scenario. In citing an author in a long blockquote this author, in turn, ...
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Specify citation style in footnotes (point at the end of the citation)
I'm trying to modify the style of citations in footnotes, specifically adding a point at the end of the citation.
I use the biblatex-chicago package for my bibliography and here is a MWE of my ...
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Biblatex-Chicago and non-US quotation style?
I'm using biblatex-chicago as my referencing system as its fairly common in history-related fields and it has all the features I need (notes style rather than author-date, shorthands, etc.).
However, ...
