Text Formatting ⇒ csquotes | Smart Quotes

[Bram]

I have often texts where authors write straigt single quotes ('). I need to replace them with the default quotation style in the language involved (e.g. `This is a quotation’).

The csquotes package does this with \MakeOuterQuote{}. It works perfect with \MakeOuterQuote{"}, but when using \MakeOuterQuote{'} I get an 'invalid argument' error (as in the example below).

Any help would be appreciated

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\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{csquotes}

\MakeOuterQuote{'}
\begin{document}
'This is a quotation'
\end{document}

[cgnieder]

If you compile your MWE from the shell and actually press »H« as suggested in the error message you'll get the whole error message:

Only single characters with category code 12 or 13 may be
allocated as active quotes. Numbers, punctuation marks, and
characters which are part of LaTeX's syntax or reserved
for a specific purpose are invalid.

The forbidden characters are:

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[]*@~-`'.,;:!?0123456789

Solution: use another character:

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\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{+}

\begin{document}
+This is a quotation+
\end{document}

Regards

[Bram]

Thanks! And now I know how to get useful error messages.
Regards,
Bram