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

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> 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...

Yes, it is on the CVS.

> > 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...

OK; I added Spanish.

> 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

People are invited to submit a patch for all other supported languages.