How can I add « » in my sentence?

Question

Does anybody know how to add these marks « bla bla »?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '13 at 23:00

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Use the T1 encoding:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}
<<blah blah>>
\end{document}

If your document is UTF-8 encoded, then also direct input works:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}
«blah blah»
\end{document}

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answered Dec 05 '13 at 23:00

egreg

How is that working with <<? I would've thought you'd need a negative kerning between the two. But obviously you don't. – A.Ellett Dec 05 '13 at 23:11
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@A.Ellett T1 encoded fonts define ligatures for << and >> (similarly to -- and ---). – egreg Dec 05 '13 at 23:29
@egreg what if i use \usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}.Is there somelthing else i have to do ?Am i going to follow the same steps? – john john Dec 06 '13 at 10:13
@johnjohn Use << and >>; the code page doesn't have the guillemets. But switch to UTF-8 as soon as possible. – egreg Dec 06 '13 at 10:16
i use greek as language and i have problem with utf8. – john john Dec 06 '13 at 10:22

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