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"