Helge Hafting wrote:
> A ligature break prevents a wrong ligature from being made.
> a single quote followed by a double quote still looks bad,
> it will look like a "triple quote". What he wants is text that
> really looks like a single quote followed by a double quote.
> That is achievable by putting a small space between the
> single and the double quote.
>
> This gets right automatically with the << style of quoting,
> but not with the '' style of quoting.
As I already wrote: This is because LyX exports, depending on your settings,
``The word was `foo''' to LaTeX. It is impossible for LaTeX to detect the
second pair as a double quote without destroying the kerning. The solution
is: ``The word was `foo'\textquotedblright{}
The guillemets get right, because at least the inner quotation marks do not
use active characters.
The current insetquote is just to dumb to get this right, because these
quotation marks have to be used at different positions in different
languages.
Jürgen
BTW:
try
% in preamble
\usepackage[strict,babel]{csquotes}
\MakeAutoQuote{»}{«}
% in text
»The word was »foo««
