On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:47:44 Herbert Voss wrote:
>> the documation says, that \quote gives a single quote.
>> Why do I get a double one for french?
>>
>> \starttext
>> \language[nl]\quote{Nederlandse},
>> \language[en]\quote{English},
>> \language[de]\quote{Deutsch} oder
>> \language[fr]\quote{Fran\cc ais}.
>> \stoptext
>>
>> mkiv/TeXLive2010
>>
>> Herbert
>
> I do not know what is the correct usage in French,
> but single guillemets do exist in unicode:
I'm too lazy to look it up now, but most French books I read have double
guillemets «» at the outer level and double quotes “” at the inner level. The
definitions are in lang-ita.tex, and they do indeed define double guillemet for
both quotation and quote:
\installlanguage
[\s!fr]
[\c!leftquote=\leftguillemot,
\c!rightquote=\rightguillemot,
\c!leftquotation=\leftguillemot,
\c!rightquotation=\rightguillemot]
This looks wrong to me, but it's something French users must discuss. As for
the OP: you can set up any symbol you like, e.g.
\setuplanguage[fr]
[leftquote=\upperleftdoublesixquote,
rightquote=\upperrightdoubleninequote,
leftquotation=\leftguillemot,
rightquotation=\rightguillemot]
which is explained in chapter 7.3 of the manual. Btw, don't use something like
\cc in mkiv, prefer proper Unicode characters.
Thomas
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