Text Formatting ⇒ Problem with simple Quotes

[sw3quant]

Hi,

I'm using WinEdt 6.0, Vista and MiKTeX.

Really simple question I'm afraid. I often want to quote things in my documents such as "this", however, the standard button on my keyboard isn't the right one to use.

I do know the correct ones (here: ``'') which I found on the web, but every time i want to use them, i am going to the web and copying and pasting. silly!

Is there some simple way I can do this?

I have also seen http://www.winedt.org/Macros/text/smartQuote2.php but I have never used macros in LaTeX and cant even find the buttons this author refers to on this document.

is there anyway I can add a button to my latex toolbar/GUI that will do: ``''

thank you!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could use \ldq and \rdq, or easier \qq{...}, if you load the textcmds package, which provides shortcuts to LaTeX commands:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcmds}
\begin{document}
\ldq text\rdq
\qq{text}
\end{document}

Stefan

[sw3quant]

wonderful. thank you!