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Questions tagged [punctuation]
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What is best method to insert an ellipsis in a (Xe)TeX document?
What is best method to insert an ellipsis in a (Xe)TeX document?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
a...b a ... b %or
a\ldots b a \ldots b %or
a…b a … b
$a...b a ... b$ %or
$a\ldots…
Real Dreams
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Display ' apostrophe
Is there a small package free way of implementing something like this in pdflatex and LaTeX?
I wish for the outcome of
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
`It's a nice day!'
\end{document}
To be
ʻIt's a nice day!ʼ
I know that due to…
Peilonrayz
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votes
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Quotes in LaTeX ?
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best way to use quotation mark glyphs
Can I just use " for the quotes in my document?
I'm asking this because when I use them in my TextMate editor the included text is highlighted with a red color. Therefore, I…
aneuryzm
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votes
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Straight quotes?
How do I get a straight quote instead of curly quotes? I’m not inside verb or listing or any other special environments, and I’m not using XeLaTeX or anything—just normal LaTeX. I don’t want to change all quotes, just get the occasional straight…
andrew
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votes
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How to correctly write number ranges?
Suppose I would like to write something like: "She has between 1-5 cookies on her at all times."; what is the correct way to write such a number range in TeX?
Is it:
$1$-$5$
Or:
$1\text{-}5$
Or something else entirely? To me, both of the above…
bzm3r
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votes
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Why do ``` and ''' produce outputs with different spaces?
Why do
```
and
'''
produce outputs with different spaces?
\documentclass{article}
\parindent=0pt
\begin{document}
Input:
\begin{verbatim}
```\\
'''
\end{verbatim}
Output:
```\\
'''
\end{document}
kiss my armpit
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votes
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Comma in math mode
In some countries one use comma as decimal separator instead of a dot.
I ususally use:
%%%% Une vrai virgule pour les décimaux
\DeclareMathSymbol{@}{\mathord}{letters}{"3B}
and $3@2$ to obtain 3,2
instead of $3,2$ that gives 3, 2 <- a uggly useless…
Tarass
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votes
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Very long dashes in Victorian-era book
I am trying to faithfully recreate the typographic style of a Victorian era book. One thing I've noticed is the extensive use of dashes: em-dashes are everywhere, for example.
Beyond the em dash however, I notice a set of even longer dashes. For…
A. Ahmad
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votes
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Why can't LaTeX smartly match the double quote?
In many word processors, when you type " twice, it will give you a left and right double quotation marks in sequence, they are smartly matched. Why does latex end up with using,
``Blahblahblah...''
to do double quotings?
Question: Any philosophy…
Daniel
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votes
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Ideal Setup for Swiss-Style Quotes (Quotation Marks in German-speaking Switzerland)
As far as I know Switzerland uses French quotes but without whitespace.
So instead of
« citation »
it goes like this
«citation»
(to make it more confusing, in Germany they have the alternative use of »citation«)
I am going quite well with the…
Boris Däppen
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votes
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Display real apostrophe in parts of a document
The question How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX is my question too, but the answer points to a package upquote that affects the entire document. I need to display an apostrophe (U+0027) only a couple of times within the document.…
Sverre
- 20,729
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votes
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Redefining `---`
Is it possible to redefine the group of characters ---, so that instead of drawing a "em-dash" when typing ---, the output would be two "en-dashes" (––)?
J. A. Corbal
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votes
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Question Mark Without a Dot
What would be a neat way of typing a question mark without a dot? I thought I could use such a punctuation for questions in the middle of a sentence (and so justify continuing lowercase after the question mark). There is…
Alp Uzman
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votes
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Avoid inverted exclamation and question marks, when followed by quotes
In an automated system that is generating LaTeX to render PostScript and PDF, i need to avoid an ambiguity in LaTeX:
Two backticks (``) produce a closing doublequote: “
A question/exclamation mark followed by a backtick (?`) produces the inverted…
Kaii
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votes
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What is the preferred/correct way to punctuate menu sequences in manuals?
Since computers are around for quite a while now and menues turned out a success as user interface elements, I’m wondering whether there were efforts made to standardize a certain way of punctuation in menu instruction sequences used in…
Lenar Hoyt
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