[Tex/LaTex] csquotes: punctuation and quotation marks

csquotespunctuation

csquotes automatically includes or excludes the punctuation marks in or from the quotation depending on the language specified in the preamble. This can be adjusted individually by commands like \DeclareAutoPunct{.,;!?} etc.

british example: "This is a quote".

american example: "This is a quote."

I now designed a newcommand that wrapps a quotation into different quotation symbols. Let just for the sake of the question this example be the case:

custom example: °This is a quote°.

I did this simply be by the following newcommand: \newcommand{\strangequote}[1]{°#1°}

This of course does not move punctuation inside or outside the quotation marks. Could I change the command so that it does? How can I design a command that

also pays attention to the definitions of \DeclareAutoPunct{.,;!?} (so that I globally chooses for all my quotations whether to include or exclude the punctuation) or
allows me to choose for strangequote individually whether or not to include the punctuation.

Can csquotes' command \MakeForeignQuote be of any help?

Clarification: I do want to use this command in addition to the normal command (enquote or textquote) that sets british or american quotation marks.

(Small question aside: I never got the difference between quote commands and the quote commands with a "c", e.g., between \textquote and \textcquote)

Best Answer

I've never really made csquotes do my bidding with trailing punctuation, so I hope someone else answers. However, with \@ifnextchar, you can do a poor man's implementation. Where it probably fails is in respecting \spacefactor, but maybe someone else can also point out where my hacks can be improved. Anyway...

\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{article}
\usepackage[british,american]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle=true,autopunct=true]{csquotes}
\parindent 0pt

%  default spacefactors (nonfrenchspacing):
%  1000 = normal space token
%  1250 = after comma    -\
%  1500 = after semicolon  > all 3 treated as if 1500
%  2000 = after colon    -/
%  3000 = after period, question mark, exclamation mark

\makeatletter

\def\preservesf#1#2{#1}% preserves spacefactor and gobbles punctuation ..?

\newcommand\sqa[1]{%
  ``#1%
  \@ifnextchar.{.''\preservesf{\spacefactor=3000\relax}}{%
    \@ifnextchar,{,''\preservesf{\spacefactor=1500\relax}}{''}}%
}

\newcommand\sqb[1]{% <--   strictly speaking, unnecessary.
  `#1%                     instead of defining this command, do
  \@ifnextchar.{'}{%       \sqb{<quoted text>}. as normal!!
    \@ifnextchar,{'}{'}}%  provided for illustrative purposes
}

\makeatother

\newif\ifamstyle %  basic switch so your \strangequote emulates
\amstyletrue     %  british or american style

\ifamstyle
  \let\strangequote\sqa
\else
  \let\strangequote\sqb
\fi


\begin{document}
% American emulation:
\selectlanguage{american}%
The language is: \languagename.

``''{This is a quote}. \the\spacefactor\ Really?

\sqa{This is a quote}. \the\spacefactor\ Really?

\sqa{This is a quote}, \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqa{This is a quote}: \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqa{This is a quote}; \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqa{This is a quote}! \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqa{This is a quote}? \the\spacefactor\ really!

% British emulation:
\selectlanguage{british}%
the language is: \languagename.

\enquote{This is a quote}. \the\spacefactor\ Really.

\sqb{This is a quote}. \the\spacefactor\ Really?

\sqb{This is a quote}, \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqb{This is a quote}: \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqb{This is a quote}; \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqb{This is a quote}! \the\spacefactor\ really!

\sqb{This is a quote}? \the\spacefactor\ really!


\verb|\strangequote|:

\strangequote{This is a quote}. \the\spacefactor\ Really?

\strangequote{This is a quote}, \the\spacefactor\ really!

\strangequote{This is a quote}: \the\spacefactor\ really!

\strangequote{This is a quote}; \the\spacefactor\ really!

\strangequote{This is a quote}! \the\spacefactor\ really!

\strangequote{This is a quote}? \the\spacefactor\ really!

\end{document}

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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).

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The csquotes manual suggests to redefine \mkblockquote, see section 8.7 Hooks for Quotations and Citations. One possibility would be

\renewcommand\mkblockquote[4]{\enquote{#1#2#3}#4}

which gives the same effect as in this answer.

The four arguments of \mkblockquote refer to

\mkblockquote{<text>}{<punct>}{<tpunct>}{<cite>}

which are explained in the manual as follows

#1 The text argument of the command.

#2 The optional <punct> argument of the command. If there is no <punct> argument, this parameter is empty.

#3 Trailing <tpunct> punctuation immediately after the command. If there is no such punctuation or if the autopunct feature is disabled, this parameter is empty.

#4 The optional <cite> argument of the command, wrapped in \mkcitation. If there is no <cite> argument, this parameter is empty. With integrated quotation commands, this parameter is the citation code, wrapped in \mkccitation.

In the example below I use

\renewcommand\mkblockquote[4]{\leavevmode\llap{,,}#1#2#3``#4}

where \llap{,,} places the opening quotation mark left of the text in the quote margin. (The space at the end before the closing quotation mark is an artefact of \blindtext and not related to \mkblockquote.)

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern,blindtext}

\usepackage[babel=true,strict=true,german=quotes,threshold=1]{csquotes}

\renewcommand\mkblockquote[4]{\leavevmode\llap{,,}#1#2#3``#4}

\begin{document}

\blindtext

\blockquote{\blindtext}

\blindtext

\end{document}

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