[texhax] [solved] Re: European quotation marks

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>>>> I wish to use the quotation marks « and ».


Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> writes:

> You can also use e.g. the ec fonts:
>
> \font\test=ecrm1000\test
>
> << abc >>
> \bye
> \endinput


Thanks, this works with both tex and pdftex!


Rodolfo:

>> Another question: how do you input « and »?  I have no such character on my
>> italian keyboard, I input it with copy and paste.


Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang at googlemail.com> writes:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemets#Typing_.22.C2.AB.22_and_.22.C2.BB.22_on_computers


Thanks.  On my keyboard, it is as easy as `Alt Gr z' and `Alt Gr x'.

Bye
Rodolfo