From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \quote
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:20:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB39EC14-D129-4BDF-AFC7-5668E9DD7C47@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201011041259.38036.alan.braslau@cea.fr>
On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:47:44 Herbert Voss wrote:
>> the documation says, that \quote gives a single quote.
>> Why do I get a double one for french?
>>
>> \starttext
>> \language[nl]\quote{Nederlandse},
>> \language[en]\quote{English},
>> \language[de]\quote{Deutsch} oder
>> \language[fr]\quote{Fran\cc ais}.
>> \stoptext
>>
>> mkiv/TeXLive2010
>>
>> Herbert
>
> I do not know what is the correct usage in French,
> but single guillemets do exist in unicode:
I'm too lazy to look it up now, but most French books I read have double guillemets «» at the outer level and double quotes “” at the inner level. The definitions are in lang-ita.tex, and they do indeed define double guillemet for both quotation and quote:
\installlanguage
[\s!fr]
[\c!leftquote=\leftguillemot,
\c!rightquote=\rightguillemot,
\c!leftquotation=\leftguillemot,
\c!rightquotation=\rightguillemot]
This looks wrong to me, but it's something French users must discuss. As for the OP: you can set up any symbol you like, e.g.
\setuplanguage[fr]
[leftquote=\upperleftdoublesixquote,
rightquote=\upperrightdoubleninequote,
leftquotation=\leftguillemot,
rightquotation=\rightguillemot]
which is explained in chapter 7.3 of the manual. Btw, don't use something like \cc in mkiv, prefer proper Unicode characters.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 11:47 \quote Herbert Voss
2010-11-04 11:59 ` \quote Alan BRASLAU
2010-11-04 12:20 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2010-11-04 13:57 ` \quote Khaled Hosny
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