OK, I'm trying this question again. If I don't get a reply I'll post to the site.
By default, " typesets as two curly quotes. However, if I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} it is now displayed as two straight quotes. The approved way (vide tex.stackexchange.com/a/43562/…) seems to be to use \textquotedbl. So why does " work?
@FaheemMitha The markup you are supposed to use is two back quotes for double left quote and two single '' for double right quote. The 7bit OT1 encoding had to put the ligature of ' and ' somewhere and it put it in the slot with the ascii code for " so if you typed " you got a right double quote more or less by accident. T1 encoding (and Unicode) has a straight quote in that position.
@FaheemMitha At the Cork conference (many years ago) it was decided that the T1 encoded fonts should have the "real" ASCII characters in positions 32 to 127. Conversely, Knuth wanted to use only 7 bit fonts, so he had to make some decisions about what characters to omit. In particular, he decided to put the double closing quotes in the ASCII position of the double (straight) quotes, but also ¡ and ¿ in the place of < and >.
Hello :) tex.stackexchange.com/a/61942/749 - I've found this snippet of code and it works great but when comments are intended by spaces it does not color the comments right (I mean the comments: <!-- -->). Does anyone know how to fix it?
@DavidCarlisle I see. I wonder why this is not documented in that tex.sx question I referenced. They talk about \textquotedbl, including Werner's answer
@egreg So, is the double straight quote an ascii character?
From this code:
\subsubsection{General Escaping Format}
Generally, escaping MUST be done in a manner similar to most programming
languages, such as C, C++, Java, or similar, for quoted string escapes. Such an
escaping scheme is defined by three characters: a starting delimiter, a
termination del...
@FaheemMitha yes it's the character you get from " (ascii character 34)
@FaheemMitha that's asking the opposite question though (how to get straight quote) for which \textquotedbl is the right answer. the fact that you can also get it from using " in OT1 is an accident it's best not to mention.
@FaheemMitha It is the wrong markup and just works by accident due to the internal font encoding and lack of error checking by LaTeX. LaTeX is designed so that the input and font encodings are separate, if you switch fonts to a different encoding the same markup in the document is supposed to work, however that only works if the document uses the proper latex markup " isn't a supported input character and if you use it you get different results depending on the font encoding used.
Starting again... in classic (OT1) encoding people used (still use) " to get double right quote. That was the incorrect markup I had in mind for most of the above. It sort of works in OT1 but if you switch encoding it breaks. " is ascii and Unicode 34 so should be straight quotes really, it is in T1 so in an ideal word " would be standard markup and would just work, but in a world where even now a large proportion of users are using OT1 encodings "< and > ...
... have to be used with care as if the markup gets moved to an OT1 context they produce right quotes and inverted spanish punctuation signs. So LaTeX provides command name forms that should always work.
@FaheemMitha not really, I'd have to type it all again:-)
So, if history has gone differently, in "classic" encoding, '' might have been used for straight quotes, but it wasn't, so now it can't be used portably?
I am using Texmaker on Windows 8. I am new to LaTeX but still with help from the book I could write my report on my own.
Now I have to create a beamer presentation with in 2 days and I never used beamer and none of my friends have never used it.
So, can any one give me suggestion and also sugge...
@FaheemMitha I can't do that because one plot has the scale 0-10 and the other is 0-1. So they need to be visually separated. Colors make it more difficult
@texenthusiast because the commands are entirely different in use and implementation, they just happen to use the same syntax. In general you should avoid manual line breaks and explicit spacing but a tabular is a fixed grid layout so forced linebreaks and forced cell ends & are a necessity
@texenthusiast Use \\only when you need an explicit line break, which is different from "end a paragraph". An explicit "break line here" is rarely needed in normal text. If you feel the need of a "blank line" in the output, first of all ask yourself why you should need it: it's a device quite common among word processor users, because it's easy to hit Return twice. But normally a new paragraph is sufficient to convey the idea.
@texenthusiast You think so? Hmm, we use it a lot in catalogs etc. to make actuator selection for example. But it's not common practice in general I guess. 2-ordinate plots are indispensable for certain plots actually.
@StefanKottwitz IMHO, this question tex.stackexchange.com/q/108603/3954 is not an exact duplicate (although it is related) of the one linked. I left a comment to the question, explaining my reasons.
I am using Texmaker on Windows 8. I am new to LaTeX but still with help from the book I could write my report on my own.
Now I have to create a beamer presentation with in 2 days and I never used beamer and none of my friends have never used it.
So, can any one give me suggestion and also sugge...
