macrospunctuation
The standard way of writing quotes and double quotes in LaTeX is with `` and '', but I find them quite ugly. Isn't there something similar to \emph{}, but for quotes? I mean something like \quotes{quoted text goes here}.
I've been looking but couldn't find any, maybe you guys can.
LaTeX provides:
\textquotedblleft for “,\textquotedblright for ”,\textquoteleft for ‘ and\textquoteright for ’.You can define your own macro:
\newcommand\dblquote[1]{\textquotedblleft #1\textquotedblright}
\newcommand\sglquote[1]{\textquoteleft #1\textquoteright}
Or you use the csquotes package that provides nested language sensitive quote enclosing:
\enquote{Phrase\enquote{inner quote}}
For single quotes:
\enquote*{Phrase}
You could use the csquotes package. Together with the babel package it should take care of the quotes automatically (cf. example below).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[german=swiss]{csquotes}
\begin{document}
\enquote{Text \enquote{Quote in quote} more text}
\end{document}
This renders as:
As pointed out in the comments, adding \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} improves the rendering of the quotes:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[german=swiss]{csquotes}
\begin{document}
\enquote{Text \enquote{Quote in quote} more text}
\end{document}
Additionally to the context sensitive way, single quotes can also be set explicitly (if needed on first level):
\enquote*{Enforced single quotes}
Best Answer
You can just define your own macro: