From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>,
Dmitry Starostin <starostin.dmitry@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Quotation marks
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:54:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <880f1561-e4b8-ad9e-8c95-43c05f63973f@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190719102156.6a521463@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
On 7/19/2019 6:21 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:54:08 +0300
> Dmitry Starostin <starostin.dmitry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand it might have been deliberately and for various reasons,
>> but ConTeXt has no analogue for {``} and {''} for quotes. \quotation
>> is a replacement, but it is awkward if you write a draft in ConTeXt
>> and make the final variant in pdfLatex. Is there a ready solution for
>> the quotation marks as marked out in the text? Or one needs to write
>> his own macro for this?
>
> Write a macro in pdfLatex.
>
> (You can always use utf-8:
> “”
> « »
> „“
> etc. as appropriate)
Quotes are rather language dependent so therefore we use \quotation.
As Alan says, you can always define a macro for latex:
\def\quotation#1{``#1''}
doing that for context is not a good idea. (Also because future versions
might issue an error when such core macros are redefined.)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-19 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-19 15:54 Dmitry Starostin
2019-07-19 16:21 ` Alan Braslau
2019-07-19 17:54 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2019-07-19 23:58 ` Atsuhito Kohda
2019-07-20 0:07 ` Alan Braslau
2019-07-20 0:57 ` Hans Hagen
2019-07-20 13:15 ` Denis Maier
2019-07-20 23:09 ` Atsuhito Kohda
2019-07-20 18:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-07-20 23:13 ` Atsuhito Kohda
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