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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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  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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