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Should I be using fontspec per Single quotes in csquotes enter image description here ? My initial single quote faces the wrong way, latex thinks it's an apostrophe.

MWE: filename: mwe-singlequotes.tex

\documentclass[a4paper,hebrew,british,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{geometry,polyglossia,fontspec,csquotes,setspace}
\geometry{vscale=.85} %default is .7, bottom margin too big
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\setmainlanguage[variant=british]{english}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont{Times New Roman}[Script=Hebrew]
\usepackage[notes,backend=biber,bookpages=false,doi=false,isbn=false,labeldate]{biblatex-chicago}
%makes block quotes single spaced
\newenvironment*{singlespcquote}
{\begin{spacing}{1}\quote}
{\endquote\end{spacing}}
\SetBlockEnvironment{singlespcquote}
\SetBlockThreshold{0}
\begin{document}
\section*{Initial 'single quote' is backwards}
\doublespace
I am having trouble with, "single quotes, said the 'latex user' to his     'friend.'"  
The first one is back wards.  \texthebrew{".הראשון הוא חזרה מחלקות"}  Oh no, I just discovered that Hebrew quotes are wrong.  Let me try this "\texthebrew{הוא}"  Ok, that's a 'stopgap'

\blockquote{I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.}

Well I don't know when to use blockquote vs. displayquote.  Please don't try to fix my backward initial single quote by putting me on babel/pdflatex instead of polyglossia/xelatex.  I think I'm on csquotes insteads of quotes or quoting for a reason, but I don't know it any more.  This document compiles with \$latexmk -xelatex -f mwe-singlequotes.tex
\end{document}
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בנימן הגלילי
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  • Wow, problem is actually somewhat related to auto-complete (auto-close?) features in SublimeText. I was hitting single quote ' and being given two ' ' with the cursor placed in between. This makes the first one backwards after compilation. By hitting instead I am actually given ' with the cursor in between and it compiles to correctly to pretty-curly-single quotes. – בנימן הגלילי Sep 21 '15 at 09:01

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Your outer quotes work because of the \MakeOuterQuote declaration. You can make a similar declaration for the inner quotes, but you can't use ' as csquotes protects it (you would run into problems with apostrophs). The "accent aigu" would work, but I would prefer to use the csquotes commands

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia,fontspec}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\MakeInnerQuote{´}
\setmainlanguage[variant=british]{english}
\begin{document}
I am having trouble with "single quotes, said the ´latex user´ to his friend"

I am having trouble with \enquote{single quotes, said the \enquote{latex user} to his friend}
\end{document}

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Using a backtick like suggested by Romain will give the correct quote too but doesn't make use of the csquotes features and don't adapt when you change the language.

Ulrike Fischer
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  • c'mon it's only an accent aigu or accent grave on top of a letter, by itself it's a backtick, like (forward) slash and backslash, computer words must follow American usage Q.E.D. – בנימן הגלילי Sep 21 '15 at 08:48
  • @paynito: I know that the grave accent is called backtick when used alone, But I have no idea how the accent aigu is called. And if you only want answers from native americans, I don't mind to ignore you in the future. – Ulrike Fischer Sep 21 '15 at 09:00
  • You should be able to type both accents alone by hitting space instead of some char after option-e, at least that is how it works on my keyboard. – Ulrike Fischer Sep 21 '15 at 09:11
  • `h' can be h ' or h ' the 2nd would give é' not `e' so I'm leaning toward ` as \openSingleQuote and → to exit the auto-closed single quotes. – בנימן הגלילי Sep 21 '15 at 09:19
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Using "inverted" when you start a single quote part should work:

`text'

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,hebrew,british,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{geometry,polyglossia,fontspec,csquotes,setspace}
\geometry{vscale=.85} %default is .7, bottom margin too big
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\setmainlanguage[variant=british]{english}
\setotherlanguage{hebrew}
\newfontfamily\hebrewfont{Times New Roman}[Script=Hebrew]
\usepackage[notes,backend=biber,bookpages=false,doi=false,isbn=false,labeldate]{biblatex-chicago}
%makes block quotes single spaced
\newenvironment*{singlespcquote}
{\begin{spacing}{1}\quote}
{\endquote\end{spacing}}
\SetBlockEnvironment{singlespcquote}
\SetBlockThreshold{0}
\begin{document}
\section*{Initial `single quote' is backwards}
\doublespace
I am having trouble with, "single quotes, said the `latex user' to his     `friend.'"  
The first one is back wards.  \texthebrew{".הראשון הוא חזרה מחלקות"}  Oh no, I just discovered that Hebrew quotes are wrong.  Let me try this "\texthebrew{הוא}"  Ok, that's a `stopgap'

\blockquote{I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.}

Well I don't know when to use blockquote vs. displayquote.  Please don't try to fix my backward initial single quote by putting me on babel/pdflatex instead of polyglossia/xelatex.  I think I'm on csquotes insteads of quotes or quoting for a reason, but I don't know it any more.  This document compiles with \$latexmk -xelatex -f mwe-singlequotes.tex
\end{document}
Romain Picot
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  • I'm typing mostly in sublime text on a mac. It's a monospaced font that makes all quotes look like straight quotes not curly quotes. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50711/backward-opening-quote-in-mac suggests TeXShop does some magic to your quotes as you type them. – בנימן הגלילי Sep 21 '15 at 08:31
  • Is your "inverted" the backtick under the tilde? ~ ? So I should open all single quotes with a back tick? – בנימן הגלילי Sep 21 '15 at 08:32
  • @paynito I use an azerty keyboard. In this case it done with alt gr + 7. On other keyboard I don't know – Romain Picot Sep 21 '15 at 08:39