[Tex/LaTex] How to end with a single quote followed by a double quote

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I have a paragraph as follows:

``This is a quote. `Here is a quote within a quote.'''

But the formatting works out to be a double quote (") followed by a single quote (') instead of the other way around. How can I solve this problem?

Best Answer

You have the following options:

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Outer double, inner single: ``\thinspace`\ \ldots\ '\thinspace'' \par
Outer single, inner double: `\thinspace``\ \ldots\ ''\thinspace'

The TeX Book mentions (Chapter 2: Book Printing versus Ordinary Typing, p 5): "There's usually less space preceding a single left quote than there is preceding a double left quote. (Left and right are opposites.)"

So, in your instance,

``This is a quote. `Here is a quote within a quote.'\thinspace''

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