I am trying to put a text in "" using \textquotedblleft and \textquotedblright. It works perfectly fine except it does not put ANY space after \textquotedblright. In other words, BEFORE \textquotedblleft TEXT \textquotedblright AFTER comes out as BEFORE "TEXT"AFTER. Is there any way to fix it? One obvious way is using BEFORE \textquotedblleft TEXT \textquotedblright \ AFTER. I was wondering if there is any better way to fix this. Thanks
[Tex/LaTex] Space after \textquotedblright
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First of all, TeX language is not "free form", so there's a big difference between
\newcommand{\pink}[1]{
\colorbox{red!20}{#1}
}
and
\newcommand{\pink}[1]{\colorbox{red!20}{#1}}
In the first case two spaces are added before and after the \colorbox, because end-of-lines are converted into spaces and they become part of the replacement text. So your first attempt is equivalent to do
\newcommand{\pink}[1]{ \colorbox{red!20}{#1} }
and the source of the spacing is now evident.
However, there's also another catch: \colorbox adds a padding around the text; its thickness is controlled by the parameter \fboxsep.
Here is a more complex definition for taking into account a problem that will be clear from the last example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand{\reducedstrut}{\vrule width 0pt height .9\ht\strutbox depth .9\dp\strutbox\relax}
\newcommand{\pink}[1]{%
\begingroup
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}%
\colorbox{red!20}{\reducedstrut#1\/}%
\endgroup
}
\begin{document}
laugh\pink{ing}
laugh\pink{ing}
lau\pink{f}ing
lau\begingroup\fboxsep=0pt\colorbox{red!20}{\reducedstrut f}\endgroup ing
\end{document}
I've used \reducedstrut in order that the colored box does not touch possible other colored boxes in the lines above or below. With \strut, instead of \reducedstrut, the colored boxes in the first two lines would merge. Finally, the "italic correction" \/ ensures that the whole contents is covered by the pink background, as it's clear from the last two lines (the last one has the same construction, but without \/).
Add the following lines in the preamble:
\makeatletter
\@ifpackageloaded{moderncvstyleclassic}{%
\let\oldsection\section%
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\leavevmode\unskip\vspace*{-\baselineskip}\oldsection{#1}}%
}{%
}
\makeatother
The redefinition of \section is applied only when you choose the style classic so if you want to change style, you have no problems.
To have better spacing, now choose -0.5em instead of -1.2em when the \cventry contains lists.
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic} % banking, casual, classic, empty, oldstyle options
\moderncvcolor{blue} % black, blue, green, grey, orange, purple, red options
\usepackage[scale=0.85]{geometry} % default scale=0.7. height= scale * layoutheight
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{R\'esum\'e} % optional
\makeatletter
\@ifpackageloaded{moderncvstyleclassic}{%
\let\oldsection\section%
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\leavevmode\unskip\vspace*{-\baselineskip}\oldsection{#1}}%
}{%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle
\section{Professional Experience}
\cventry{Year--Year}{Intern}{Company}{Nowhere}{State}{
\begin{itemize}
\item Did something important here.
\end{itemize}}
% problem with vertical space-------------------------------------------------
\section{Education}
\cventry{06/11}{Bachelor of Arts \LaTeX}{University of \LaTeX}{}{\textit{4.0/4.0}}{}
%\vspace*{-6mm} %this will fix vertical spacing for \moderncvstyle{classic}, but create vertical spacing issues for other \moderncvstyle{xyz}.
% problem with vertical space -------------------------------------------------
\section{Skills}
\cvitem[-0.5em]{}{
\begin{itemize}
\item \LaTeX
\end{itemize}}
%\vspace*{-6mm} %this will fix vertical spacing for \moderncvstyle{classic}, but create vertical spacing issues for other \moderncvstyle{xyz}.
\section{Languages}
\cvitem[-0.5em]{}{
\begin{itemize}
\item TeX-speak
\end{itemize}}
% \cvitem{}{job description text here}
\end{document}
Output:
Best Answer
\textquotedblleftand\textquotedblright(as well as most other commands without arguments, which do not use the xspace package) gobble their following space (as if the name was\textquotedblleft␣). To get a space character there, you need to use\textquotedblleft{}and\textquotedblright{}. You could also use explicit space (e.g.\␣(slash space) or\hspace{1em}), but you want the space to be stretchable, dont't you? Alternatively, as suggested by cgnieder, the csquotes package can be used for quotes.