How to make a quotation mark "....." in LaTeX?

Question

I want to know how to typeset quotation marks in LaTeX.

When I use quotation marks (""), a problem occurs: the spacing between the quoted- and unquoted-word disappears. E.g., my text looks like example (1) below. I want it to look like example (2) (notice the inter-word spacing).

(1) The mode is called "BASDF"because

(2) The mode is called "BASDF" because

Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. — NBur, Nov 09 '21 at 11:16
It might be a better idea to use the csquotes package and its \enquote macro. Then you don't need special chars and the actual symbol combo can be controlled from the preamble — daleif, Nov 09 '21 at 12:05
This has nothing to do with biblatex, so I'll remove the tag. But let me just echo daleif's advice: Use csquotes to typeset quotation marks. If you use \enquote you don't have to worry about the exact commands/characters to typeset the typographically correct quotation marks in your language, you'll get the right output automatically. Plus you can easily switch between different styles if your language has different conventions. — moewe, Nov 09 '21 at 16:13
You could use my semantic-markup package and then just write \quoted{BASDF}. (It uses csquotes under the hood) — musarithmia, Nov 10 '21 at 01:10
Does this answer your question? What is the best way to use quotation mark glyphs? — user202729, Nov 10 '21 at 03:13
-- also punctuation - Quotation with double quote and O results in Ö - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange — user202729, Nov 10 '21 at 03:14

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '21 at 11:25

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
The mode is called ``BASDF'' because
\end{document}

answered Nov 09 '21 at 11:25

hpekristiansen

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You could create a Minimal Working Example, by moving \end{document} up your code and continuously checking if the problem is there. -eliminate EVERYTHING until you only have the problematic code. You might find that a package or combinations of packages is causing the problem. – hpekristiansen Nov 09 '21 at 11:35

Davislor · Answer 2 · 2021-11-10T05:45:01.090

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You can also type in curly quotes on the keyboard, in your UTF-8 source file. A modern TeX distribution will understand them.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
The mode is called “BASDF” because
\end{document}

On older installations, you might also need to load inputenc or selinput, but UTF-8 has been the default encoding for LaTeX, in all engines, since 2018.

edited Nov 10 '21 at 05:45

answered Nov 10 '21 at 03:07

Davislor

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It would be better to specify that for modern TeX distribution you mean, if compiled with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX. Otherwise, one has to include \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} – Guido Nov 10 '21 at 04:44
@Guido That hasn’t been the case since April 2018. That line is no longer needed, in any engine. – Davislor Nov 10 '21 at 05:42

How to make a quotation mark "....." in LaTeX?

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