When I do quotation marks in LaTeX, they come out the same, both left and right.
I use the apostrophe on the keyboard for the quotation marks in a LaTeX document. But it looks like a right quotation mark, when on the Latex document. It looks a bit silly on the left side.
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kaiserkarl13
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Re: Correct Quotation Marks
You will want to use the grave accent character, which is the same key as tilde (~) on US/English keyboards. For example, ``Hello'' comes out with "smart" quotes facing the way you'd expect them to look. "Hello" is the same as ''Hello'' but ``Hello'' is not.
Correct Quotation Marks
Also useful is the quotes package. Just do
Hope this helps.
Nat
\usepackage{quotes}, and then type by using the " key (Shift+2). It will work out the matching quotes properly.Hope this helps.
Nat