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What's the Difference between Two Single-Quotes and One Double-Quote?
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As you would know, LaTeX uses ` for opening quotes and ' for closing quotes. Most fonts also allow the usage of " for closing doublequotes. My question is: what are the differences in typesetting, formatting, etx, between two 's and one "? Is it a meaningful difference like using dollar-signs against using backslash-notations? Or is it just a personal preference thing for the same function?
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As you would know, LaTeX uses ` for opening quotes and ' for closing quotes. Most fonts also allow the usage of " for closing doublequotes. My question is: what are the differences in typesetting, formatting, etx, between two 's and one "? Is it a meaningful difference like using dollar-signs against using backslash-notations? Or is it just a personal preference thing for the same function?
symbols
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
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My editor automatically converts"to either `` or''(it keeps track). This is occasionally a pain when you NEED a"(for pgfmath or filenames), in which case I have to copy and paste from another document.
– John Kormylo
9 hours ago
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As you would know, LaTeX uses ` for opening quotes and ' for closing quotes. Most fonts also allow the usage of " for closing doublequotes. My question is: what are the differences in typesetting, formatting, etx, between two 's and one "? Is it a meaningful difference like using dollar-signs against using backslash-notations? Or is it just a personal preference thing for the same function?
symbols
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
As you would know, LaTeX uses ` for opening quotes and ' for closing quotes. Most fonts also allow the usage of " for closing doublequotes. My question is: what are the differences in typesetting, formatting, etx, between two 's and one "? Is it a meaningful difference like using dollar-signs against using backslash-notations? Or is it just a personal preference thing for the same function?
symbols
symbols
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
asked 10 hours ago
K. PaulK. Paul
344216
344216
1
My editor automatically converts"to either `` or''(it keeps track). This is occasionally a pain when you NEED a"(for pgfmath or filenames), in which case I have to copy and paste from another document.
– John Kormylo
9 hours ago
add a comment |
1
My editor automatically converts"to either `` or''(it keeps track). This is occasionally a pain when you NEED a"(for pgfmath or filenames), in which case I have to copy and paste from another document.
– John Kormylo
9 hours ago
1
1
My editor automatically converts
" to either `` or '' (it keeps track). This is occasionally a pain when you NEED a " (for pgfmath or filenames), in which case I have to copy and paste from another document.– John Kormylo
9 hours ago
My editor automatically converts
" to either `` or '' (it keeps track). This is occasionally a pain when you NEED a " (for pgfmath or filenames), in which case I have to copy and paste from another document.– John Kormylo
9 hours ago
add a comment |
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The " is not supported LaTeX syntax, it happens to work in some font encodings. As it is not (supposed) to be used as character input it is often used as a shortcut character in many babel package and other language settings eg "- as a variant hyphenation construct not suppressing hyphenation of the following word.
If " does produce a double quote Then it (should) be a straight left-or-right quote, it is just an accident of the legacy TeX encodings that the right double quote was in that position. If you want single character input it is better to use the standard Unicode left and right double quote characters U+201C U+201D “ ”
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The " is not supported LaTeX syntax, it happens to work in some font encodings. As it is not (supposed) to be used as character input it is often used as a shortcut character in many babel package and other language settings eg "- as a variant hyphenation construct not suppressing hyphenation of the following word.
If " does produce a double quote Then it (should) be a straight left-or-right quote, it is just an accident of the legacy TeX encodings that the right double quote was in that position. If you want single character input it is better to use the standard Unicode left and right double quote characters U+201C U+201D “ ”
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The " is not supported LaTeX syntax, it happens to work in some font encodings. As it is not (supposed) to be used as character input it is often used as a shortcut character in many babel package and other language settings eg "- as a variant hyphenation construct not suppressing hyphenation of the following word.
If " does produce a double quote Then it (should) be a straight left-or-right quote, it is just an accident of the legacy TeX encodings that the right double quote was in that position. If you want single character input it is better to use the standard Unicode left and right double quote characters U+201C U+201D “ ”
answered 10 hours ago
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
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The " is not supported LaTeX syntax, it happens to work in some font encodings. As it is not (supposed) to be used as character input it is often used as a shortcut character in many babel package and other language settings eg "- as a variant hyphenation construct not suppressing hyphenation of the following word.
If " does produce a double quote Then it (should) be a straight left-or-right quote, it is just an accident of the legacy TeX encodings that the right double quote was in that position. If you want single character input it is better to use the standard Unicode left and right double quote characters U+201C U+201D “ ”
answered 10 hours ago
David CarlisleDavid Carlisle
506k4211531905
The " is not supported LaTeX syntax, it happens to work in some font encodings. As it is not (supposed) to be used as character input it is often used as a shortcut character in many babel package and other language settings eg "- as a variant hyphenation construct not suppressing hyphenation of the following word.
If " does produce a double quote Then it (should) be a straight left-or-right quote, it is just an accident of the legacy TeX encodings that the right double quote was in that position. If you want single character input it is better to use the standard Unicode left and right double quote characters U+201C U+201D “ ”
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"to either `` or''(it keeps track). This is occasionally a pain when you NEED a"(for pgfmath or filenames), in which case I have to copy and paste from another document.– John Kormylo
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