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[Martin Lukeš <martin.meridius@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is great Kevin!

For example, in the following sentence, replace the quotes here with
> the quotes you would use in Czech:
>

„Kevin said, ‚I have an easy way to write quotation marks,‘ “ Martin
pointed out.

„ U+201E - left  double outer
‚ U+201A - left  single inner
‘ U+2018 - right single inner
“ U+201C - right double outer

Thank you again!

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


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

> 'allo.
>
> 2010/4/11 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?
>
> Ah, I understand.
>
> Okay, there's a package I had halfway set up to try to make this a bit
> easier, but never finished it.  If you answer the following questions,
> I can set it up for Czech for you.  (And if anyone else wants to use
> these commands for their own language, email me with your language and
> the quote styles you use.)
>
> For 'outer quotes', you're using „these“.  What do 'inner' quotes look
> like?
>
> For example, in the following sentence, replace the quotes here with
> the quotes you would use in Czech:
>
>  "Kevin said, 'I have an easy way to write quotation marks,' " Martin
> pointed out.
>
> Once I have this info, I'll add Czech quotes to the quotation marks
> database.  Then you can use the following commands to write the
> sentence above:
>
>  \enquote{Kevin said, \enquote{I have an easy way to write quotation
> marks,}} Martin pointed out.
>
> The \enquote{text} command will put quotation marks around 'text'.  It
> will normally use 'outer' quotes, unless it's already inside those
> outer quotes, in which case it will use 'inner' quotes.
>
> You can run 'texdoc csquotes' to read the documentation for this
> package if you want the gory details.
>
> --Kevin
>