Questions tagged [quotation]
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Quotation for hypothesis
I would like to do somethink like the following
I tried diefferent approches with colorbox and parbox, but nothing really works. Especially the padding.
What I have so far is text with qoutation marks and a light gray background. What is missing is…
janimango
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Same-side facing quotation marks
I'm creating a story on MiKTeX but when I want to use quotation marks for speech of characters, they face the same side. For example, when I input
He hollered, 'Who goes there?'
The output is given as
Notice that the quotation marks are facing…
Santhosh
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Behaviour of single quotes with `luaquotes` packages is not consistent
Here is my MWE with the luaquotespackage:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luaquotes}
% \smartquotes
\usepackage[english=british]{csquotes}
\begin{document}
\section{Test of \texttt{luaquotes} package}
\noindent 'Single' 'Single'…
chandra
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Straight quote in the whole document?
I would like to obtain a straight quote, ', when I type ' in my LaTeX input, and a straight double quote, ", when I type " in my LaTeX input. This, everywhere, in every case: normal text, section title, inside a \texttt or a \verb command, … I want…
Olivier Cailloux
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Quote baselineskip bleeding into preceding paragraph
Sometimes quotes are parts of paragraphs and shouldn't be separated from
the rest of them by an empty line. But, if the quote is set in a
smaller font size, with a concomitant smaller baselineskip, the latter
rubs off on the preceding part of the…
Toothrot
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How to make a quotation mark "....." in LaTeX?
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)…
Konstantin
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Why can I not get quotation marks converted to guillemets?
I used some of the great advice on this site to try to change my quotation marks (source file: markdown) into guillemets. Unfortunately it does not work, they end up as plain " in the pdf output. On top of that, in some cases there seems to be a…
fertchen
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How can one change the default font size and the text color in the quote environment?
How can one change the font size and color of the text in the "quote" environment?
lemond_2021
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Quote marks are backwards
I am trying to put quote marks around a word, and have been doing it ' 'word", however I am still getting two backwards quote marks. My preamble is…
J. Smith
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Increase space between lines in a conversation
I'm sure this has been asked before, but couldn't see an answer which I could use.
I am using the \quote package to relay a conversation. How can I increase the spacing between lines in the conversation, but not for the rest of the document…
Bat
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how to quote a quote from a mathematician?
In my project, at a paragraph I want to quote a saying from Newton as follow
"Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration:…
PermQi
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Enquote vs Textquote
I couldn't find direct answer on the internet. Both seem to give identical result, which also includes your current language settings. Are there any differences between them? Overleaf documentation doesn't mention enquote at all, which might point…
walter54
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Do you need to write `` for quotation marks?
My understanding was always that, to write quotation marks in Latex, one should write ` and ' (instead of ‘ and ’). Recently, however, I pasted ‘ and ’ into Overleaf (from Microsoft Word) and could not see any discernible difference.
Question: Does…
afreelunch
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On the symbols for quotation marks
I want that each time that I write "[text]" on Latex, the compiler understand that the result should be “[text]”, not ”[text]”.
In the same spirit, only when I write '[text]', I would like to see ‘[text]’, not ’[text]’.
Consider that in my keyboards…
GiulioGCantone
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Quotation at the beginning of a chapter
Hi would like to put a quotation at the beginning of each chapter. I am using "jurabook" and I just don't how to do it since I cannot use \dictum. I would much appreciate any…
Lagrange
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