Text Formatting ⇒ Automatic Insertion of unbreakable Space after Guillemets

[AleCes]

Pardon my ignorance, but which is the "Unicode character for guillemets"?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Here are the codes: Guillemet Unicode. You could also copy & paste such characters into your code.

With pdfLaTeX:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
«~Text~»
\end{document}

With XeLaTeX:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
«~Text~»
\end{document}

Stefan

[localghost]

To elaborate Stefan's answer regarding XeLaTeX a bit, here's an example for a French document.

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% !TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}

\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{XITS}
\setsansfont[Ligatures=TeX,Scale=MatchLowercase]{Cantarell}
\setmonofont[Ligatures=TeX]{Inconsolata}
\setmathfont[Ligatures=TeX]{XITS Math}

\begin{document}
  «Text»: «Text»;
\end{document}

All used fonts are available for free in the net.

[AleCes]

Ahem... I don't understand your point. Of course my font, Tinos supports Unicode-compliant guillemets. I mean, I'm not enjoining XeLaTeX to fake them through bitmaps. But the main issue here is: how do I type them time-effectively into my text, provided that, as you probably know, the French layout does not contain a key for them? Copy-paste is annoying, especially when you (like me) deal with a book, a very long text. I was wondering whether LaTeX allows for some quick-and-dirty shortcuts, something like \S for the section sign (§).

[localghost]

[…] But the main issue here is: how do I type them time-effectively into my text, provided that, as you probably know, the French layout does not contain a key for them? […]

Hm, from a French keyboard I would think that it has keys to produce these characters directly. On my Linux system I just need to hold "Alt Gr" and hit "x" to produce "«". For "»" it's "Alt Gr" together with "y". Doesn't your editor allow a setup to insert these French quote characters directly by replacement?

[AleCes]

Oops, I forgot about that, here's the workaround I devised:

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\newcommand{\og}{«}
\newcommand{\fg}{»}

Hope it might help other people.

[Johannes_B]

Please note something: I had french in school, but this is a long long time ago. I don't know about Stefan or Thorsten. And tough I actually learnt the language. i can't remember for the life of me about the Punctuation rules of the french language. I guess it's the same about the others.

If this really is common orthography, then there will already be a solution.

And now please consider the following MWE:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{french}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
This is a \enquote{Test sentence}: My french is a bit rusty.
\end{document}

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
This is a \enquote{Test sentence}: My french is a bit rusty.
\end{document}

EDIT: I just read the thread from the beginning, and altough you mentioned french typography your problem description was completely wrong.

[AleCes]

Please note something: I had french in school, but this is a long long time ago. I don't know about Stefan or Thorsten. And tough I actually learnt the language. i can't remember for the life of me about the Punctuation rules of the french language. I guess it's the same about the others.

If this really is common orthography, then there will already be a solution.

And now please consider the following MWE:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{french}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
This is a \enquote{Test sentence}: My french is a bit rusty.
\end{document}

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
This is a \enquote{Test sentence}: My french is a bit rusty.
\end{document}

EDIT: I just read the thread from the beginning, and altough you mentioned french typography your problem description was completely wrong.

OK, I'm sorry, you know I'm a rookie, my understanding of Latex is very limited.

Now, \enquote is could be useful because polyglossya doesn't make any allowance for French-style quotes but if you use babel, you won't need it as it enables the commands \og and \fg, which respectively open and close the angle quotes and places an unbreakable space respectively after and before the said quotes. The unbreakable space is mandatory in French, does \enquote do so? Otherwise it won't be any good.

[Johannes_B]

enquote changes the quotes acccording the language.
If enquote adds he mandatory space? Try clicking on my given example.

[AleCes]

enquote changes the quotes acccording the language.
If enquote adds he mandatory space? Try clicking on my given example.

I've already done so, of course, before answering you. The problem is, is the space a normal one or an unbreakable one? How can I tell it?