[Tex/LaTex] Backwards quote marks in Latex (and I’ve tried a lot of things to prevent it!)

csquotesquotation

I am aware this question has been asked several times before but I am still yet to find a answer that seems to work for me.

I have used csquotes package to try and get proper quote marks but I do not end up with proper quote marks and they are still the wrong way round. Using ` also does not work.

It must be something in my package class which is stopping it from working. I am using a Doctoral Thesis LaTeX class which I am aware is hand coded but does anyone know what other packages might be preventing me from obtaining proper quote marks?

This is what I keep getting:

But the front quote mark is still backwards. I've tried so many things and nothing seems to work which makes me think some other package is preventing it.

Any ideas?!

Best Answer

The quotes of the font looks like this. That's the font design.

\documentclass[english]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\begin{document}
\enquote*{Test}
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Hanging punctuation with \enquote

Don’t worry, this is normal — the first line of an indented paragraph are not outdented.

Minimum working example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}        % For convinience, show the margins
\geometry{a5paper,showframe} % Use a5 size paper and display a border around the
                             % edge for debugging purposes
\usepackage{csquotes}        % Defines \enquote
\usepackage{microtype}       % For hanging indents (no config needed)
\begin{document}

\textit{A regular indented paragraph has no hanging punctuation applied until
the second line}:

``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text''
``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text'' ``text''
``text'' ``text''

\vspace{1em}\hrule\vspace{1em}

\textit{The same applies to paragraphs consisting of \texttt{\char`\\ enquote}
commands}:

\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}

\vspace{1em}\hrule\vspace{1em}

\textit{However, paragraphs with no indent use hanging punctuation on the first
line}:

\noindent
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text} \enquote{text}
\end{document}

A sample of quotations hanged

If you want the punctuation to be entirely in the margin, raise the value of the "factor" value in microtype, by letting :

\usepackage[factor=2000]{microtype}

Second sample, the quotes are clearly in the margin

More on what the value of factor corresponds to (from the Microtype Package Documentation, p. 7, sec. 3.2 — Character protrusion):

Using this option, you can globally increase or decrease the amount by which the characters will be protruded. While a value of 1000 means that the full protrusion as specified in the configuration (see section 5.1) will be used, a value of 500 would result in halving all protrusion factors of the configuration. This might be useful if you are generally satisfied with the settings but prefer the margin kerning to be less or more visible (e.g., if you are so proud of being able to use this feature that you want everybody to see it, or – to mention a motivation more in compliance with typographical correctness – if you are using a large font that calls for more modest protrusion).

[Tex/LaTex] csquotes: Footnotes after Block Quotes with Quotation Marks

Note that the csquotes package allows to define an optional argument for citations in \blockquote and this one can be defined to be a footnote.

So, you just have to add

\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

in the preamble

and use

\blockquote[bla...]{\lipsum*[1]...}

instead of

\blockquote{\lipsum*[1]...}\footnote{bla...}

Complete MWE

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern,csquotes,lipsum}

\renewcommand{\mkblockquote}[4]{\enquote{#1}#2\ifterm{\relax}{#3}#4}
\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote[bla...]{\lipsum*[1]...}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{document}

Output

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Update

Your issue in the update can be resolved in this way:

replace

\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

with simply

\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{#1}

and then use

\blockquote[\footnotemark]{\lipsum*[1]...}
\footnotetext{Says \cite[59]{companion}. See also \cite[59]{companion}.}