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[Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it's actually not that easy.
I wrote we use those quotes in hand-written expression. When we write quotes
on PC we're depending on text editor to automatically change "these" to
„these“ since on our keyboards is just "this" character as double quotes.

Is there a "simple"/any way to do this?

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Regards
Martin Lukeš
P.S.: Please keep the communication history


2010/4/12 Kevin Godby <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hello, Martin.
>
> 2010/4/11 Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi Kevin
> > I'd like to ask you about quotation marks for Czech language.
> > You wrote "Quotation marks for other languages are entered as their
> Unicode
> > characters." in Style Guide.
> > In hand-written expression we are used to write quotes like „this“.
> > How do we do that in manual?
>
> In plain TeX (and plain LaTeX), English-style quotation marks are
> entered using `` and ''.  Since we're using XeLaTeX (which supports
> multiple languages and Unicode), if you use different quotation marks
> in your language, replace the `` and '' with the opening and closing
> quotation marks that you normally use.
>
> You said that you are using „these quotation marks“, so I expect you
> can enter those quotation marks into the translation just as you did
> into this email message.
>
> --Kevin
>