How do I make ``` appear as ' + " and not "+ '?

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It may look like a minor difference, but I'm trying to put quotation marks between single quotes, e.g.

‘“go away” he said’

but ''' results in

“‘go away” he said’

which is not what I want...

Or better use the csquotes package and its command \enquote which nests correctly. — Andrew Swann, Jun 20 '13 at 06:48
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Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73986/how-do-you-end-with-a-single-quote-followed-by-a-double-quote/73987#73987 — Torbjørn T., Jun 20 '13 at 07:11
@AndrewSwann: csquotes does not support it out if the box, because what he wants to do gives an unbalanced combination of \enquote and \enquote* — Rico, Jun 20 '13 at 07:27
@Rico It does, you just have to choose the correct quote style. The important point is that it makes the style at the inner level different to that at the outer level. — Andrew Swann, Jun 20 '13 at 11:00
In the TeXbook, Knuth suggests writing '\thinspace'', for '+''. — Alex Nelson, Jun 20 '13 at 16:05

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '13 at 12:10

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Explaining comment by @Andrew Swann

The package csquotes can help dealing with nested quotes and quoting styles in different languages.

For example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}

\usepackage[autostyle,english=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage[english,russian]{babel}

\begin{document}

\selectlanguage{english}
In English: \enquote{\enquote{Go away}, he said.}

\selectlanguage{russian}
На русском: \enquote{\enquote{Пошёл прочь!} --- сказал он}

\end{document}

This gets you following document:

Preview

Notice that Russian and English text has the same markup, but different presentation.

edited Jun 20 '13 at 12:10

Andrew Swann

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answered Jun 20 '13 at 08:58

eiennohito

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never the less its not what the Question Starter wanted. We would like to achieve those quotes like this SINGLE DOUBLE DOUBLE SINGLE. What you did gives him the normal DOUBLE SINGLE SINGLE DOUBLE. – Rico Jun 20 '13 at 09:34
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Changing english=american to english=british does the right thing. Fixed it in the answer. – eiennohito Jun 20 '13 at 09:39
right this fixes the problem got my +1 – Rico Jun 20 '13 at 09:56

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '13 at 08:17

The simplest way is to add a pair of curly braces between the first and second backtick, which tells LaTeX to split them as a single, followed by a double. That is, write

`{}``Go away'', he said'

as opposed to

```Go away'', he said'

You get the following result:

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How do I make ``` appear as ' + " and not "+ '?

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