punctuationsyntax
I need to display two single quotes without anything between them (I'm preparing computer science lecture slides and I want to display '\''), but of course LaTeX wants to translate '' to closing double quotes.
What can I do to bypass what is now a limitation for me?
Using the csquotes package allows logical mark up of quotes. That includes 'short' quotes, which I personally would avoid but was asked for so ...
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\begin{document}
\enquote{Labas rytas}
"Labas rytas"
\end{document}
(Lithuanian babel doesn't seem to work 'out of the box', so I've used German as the standard quotation style is the same.)
You can break the ligature just by inserting {} but you may prefer the straight quote from textcomp rather than three right quotes:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\begin{document}
\texttt{Note that alpha''' is a valid Haskell identifier.}
\texttt{Note that alpha'{'}' is a valid Haskell identifier.}
\texttt{Note that alpha\textquotesingle\textquotesingle\textquotesingle{}
is a valid Haskell identifier.}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Depending on whether you need ordinary or "straight" (i.e., perfectly vertical) single quotes, you could use a verbatim environment or some of the macros of the
textcomppackage: