Latex Quotes Wrong Way

For single quotes a grave accent on american keyboards this symbol is found on the tilde key.

Latex quotes wrong way. But auto smart quote ification is in general bogus. In ot1 ot2 encoding is right quotatoin mark for cm fonts. I am obviously new to latex and have about 40 pages of text where it seems like half the quote marks are going the wrong way for american english. Smart quotes in parentheses point the way least likely to be correct certainly.

And in eu1 for xelatex and eu2 for lualatex is right quotation mark the same as. Indeed often i don t want a smart quote at. Latex treats left and right quotes as different entities. There are probably other previous characters like the other bracket types and and themselves that should also be considered for triggering a left quote.

Normally we write word with quotation as. It s important to remark that even if you are typing quotes on english there are different quotation marks used in english uk and english us. The opening and closing quotes are both pointing the same way as if they were all closing quotes. This is displayed as your words in latex both opening and closing quote facing the same side.

22 quotes have been tagged as wrong and right. You can just use as right quotation mark in some font encodings but it is upright quotation mark in some other font encodings sometimes it isn t quotation mark. In latex if you write quotation punctuation mark in normal way then you will get into problem. Quotation marks and dashes.

There s no way it can always guess the right direction. It should never be used where left quotation marks are required. Latex allows you to produce dashes of various length known as hyphens en dashes and em dashes. When i was a little girl everything in the world fell into either of these two categories.

Single quotation marks are produced in latex using and double quotation marks are produced by typing and. For this reason several l a t e x packages have been created to assist in typesetting quotations in line in display mode or at the beginning of each chapter. When it comes to quotations and quotation marks each language has its own symbols and rules. The undirected double quote character produces double right quotation marks.

In t1 encoding it is upright quotation mark.