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From: Alan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Alan <braslau.list@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: french quotation marks
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:13:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220726121343.3dd855f6@boo.my.domain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b791836-05f1-b808-66c0-9252abd2e218@fiee.net>

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:38:34 +0200
Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

> Am 26.07.22 um 11:48 schrieb Arthur Rosendahl:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:51:35PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm via
> > ntg-context wrote:
> >> Hi, according to my knowledge (and also Wikipedia), French uses «
> >> … » as double (\quotation) and ‹ … › as single (\quote) quotation
> >> marks.
> >>
> >> The current setting in ConTeXt however is « … » for both, just
> >> with less spacing for \quote.
> >> If no francophone user objects I’d suggest to fix this.
> > 
> >    I object :-)  Single chevrons are not used at all in typography
> > from France.  I read however on
> > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet that they are in
> > Switzerland, hence if that can be confirmed there could be an
> > option for Swiss French; but in the mean time I think that the
> > current setup should stay as it is.
> 
> Ok, thank you!
> So the German Wikipedia as well as “DUDEN Satz und Korrektur“ are
> wrong.

I agree with Arthur. The use of < > would be an anglicism.

Alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-26 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12 19:51 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-07-26  9:48 ` Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
2022-07-26 11:38   ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-07-26 18:13     ` Alan via ntg-context [this message]
2022-07-26 18:26       ` Denis Maier via ntg-context

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