Re: [Texmacs-dev] Proposal for consens: Quotation mark styles

[Norbert Nemec]

Am Freitag, 14. November 2003 17:02 schrieb Joris van der Hoeven:
> > That's a great idea: make ["] insert a pair of automatic quotes and place
> > the cursor in between.
>
> OK; this has been done for Dutch, English, French, German and Swiss.

Really? Have you done that "automatic quote" configuration stuff already? I 
thought, the whole thing would become a long term thing somewhere on a long 
ToDo list...

> > > > I guess, most German speakers would prefer to type ["] even if they
> > > > want to see swiss quotes.
> > >
> > > Is that so? Germans: please give your opinion!
> >
> > I am a German user myself. I guess, only experts would even think about
> > swiss codes. There might be some surprise when typing ["] produces a pair
> > of swiss codes, but everybody should understand intuitively and be happy
> > with it.
>
> Should one write >> blah << or >>blah<<?

No spaces.

> In French, one should write << blah >>.

Really? Sure about it? Seems strange to me. Well, French typesetting always 
seems to be a bit spacier than other languages. Just thinking of that "two 
spaces after '.'"-typewriter-rule...

In any case, spanish quotes seem not to have that extra space. See the paper I 
mentioned before:
        http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rolfruhig/2828PDF/2002Typesetting.pdf

Ciao,
Nobbi

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