On Nov 18, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Paul McCann wrote:
Haris asked... (re the "< and >" quoting commands):
When I try to compile a file containing these lines, it shows up pretty bad. Is this something standard in LaTeX? Does it depend on some special package perhaps? I have literally never seen these before. Then again, there's a lot of LaTeX things I haven't seen before.
I think they give "reverse guillemot-like" quotes when used in German: so, for example, if
\usepackage[german]{babel}
is in the document's preamble you can use "< to produce << (OK, a glyph something like this...).
So a working example would be
====================================================================== = \documentstyle{article} \usepackage[german]{babel}
\begin{document} And someone on AOL said ">ich auch!"< \end{document} ====================================================================== =
Yeah, yeah, I have no idea re German!
It seems to depend on \usepackage[german]{babel} or \usepackage [ngerman]{babel} (I tried it with english and french and that didn't work). The example above ("> <") works but I've never seen it this way, the right order would be ("< ">). This style of enclosure is very common in Germany in fictional texts (most of my scientific books are in English so I can't verify what's "normal" there). The result of this style can be ssen in the attached screenshot:
Niels *who didn't realize until today that he has never seen it in any book in English he read"
