[Tex/LaTex] How to tell csquotes to italicize quotes

csquotesitalic

I have a very stubborn professor who requires italicized quotes.

So I have a document full of quotes, labeled with \enquote{}. How can I easily change all of them to be in italic ?

I couldn't find anything in the documentation or anywhere else…

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[singletitle=true, isbn=false, backend=biber, bibencoding=utf8, style=verbose-trad2, citestyle=verbose-trad2]{biblatex} 
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[xindy]{imakeidx}
\usepackage[toc, acronym, xindy]{glossaries}
\usepackage{setspace}

\begin{document}

I like trains, so does my mom. She said : \enquote{I like trains !} 

\end{document}

I could just add \textit inside \enquote (I think), but I have hundreds of quotes,…

Best Answer

You could change the french style. But be aware that \enquote could e.g. be used in the bibliography.

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}
\DeclareQuoteStyle[quotes]{french}
  {\itshape\mkfrenchopenquote{\guillemotleft}}
  {\mkfrenchclosequote{\guillemotright}}
  {\itshape\textquotedblleft}
  {\textquotedblright}
\begin{document}

I like trains, so does my mom. She said : \enquote{I like trains !} clclc

\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Single quotes in csquotes

Although the csquotes package allows you to define certain characters as "active" quotes, as your sample document does for the " character, the single quote character cannot be so used, since it is a reserved character in TeX.

Since you mention that you are using text from an MSWord document, a better solution in this case would be to encode your source file as UTF-8 and either use the inputenc package (if you are using pdfLaTeX) or a UTF-8 aware engine (XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX) to compile your document. In this way you can use the "smart" quote characters “,”, ‘, and ’ directly in your source document. MSWord is quite good at automatically converting quotes correctly. If your document doesn't currently use the smart quotes, you can turn that on and then do a global replace for both ' and " and all the quotes will then be correctly changed.

Source with these quotes can then be used in your LaTeX document. In this case, you don't need to use the csquotes package at all (although you can, still if you have a mixture of quotation marks in the source.)

Using pdfLaTeX

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
I say: “These quotes look nice, but ‘if I quote someone else within a quote like
this,’ or ‘like this,’ they don’t.”
\end{document}

Using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
I say: “These quotes look nice, but ‘if I quote someone else within a quote like
this,’ or ‘like this,’ they don’t.”
\end{document}

output of code

Microtype, csquotes active quotes and itemize interaction

EDIT: This has been fixed in microtype version 3.0a.

Beginning with version 3.0, microtype applies some patches to improve protrusion at "inner margins", e.g. at the beginning of \items (see chapter 9 of the microtype doc). This requires some gymnastics, and here the active character from csquotes interferes. A quick fix would be to prevent the patching with \microtypesetup{nopatch=item}, either for the whole document or only the problematic case. A better fix (which will be included in the next version) would be to patch the pertinent microtype command:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{microtype}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeAutoQuote{“}{”}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\microtypesetup{nopatch=item} 
  \item “foo” some more text\\ “another quote”
\end{itemize}

\makeatletter 
\patchcmd\MT@get@prot{\noindent}{\noindent\@disablequotes}{}{}
\makeatother
\begin{itemize}
  \item “foo” some more text\\ “another quote”
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

(In a real document, you'd move the \MT@get@prot patch to the preamble, of course.)