Re: curly-quotes

[David Bobroff]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> On my Linux machine, I found the left and right curly quotes at
> ALT-GR v and ALT-GR b, respectively.

I'll keep that in mind when I'm using Emacs.

 You can always use
> the character map program to search for different symbols
> (on Windows, Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories ->
> System Tools -> Character map).

That was the first things I tried, but without success.  After finding
the solution via a Google search I was then able to find it in the
character map:

Left curly-quote:       Alt-0147
Right curly-quote:      Alt-0148

-David

> 
>   /Mats
> 
> David Bobroff wrote:
>> I was trying to get curly quotes in a title.  I went looking in the docs
>> for an example and found one.  I copy/pasted the quotes from the
>> displayed input in the docs and it worked fine.  But I'm still wondering
>> how it works.  I tried the TeX convention `` '' and got literally that
>> in the output.  I also tried \"title\" (within the necessary surrounding
>> quotes) and got straight quotes.  When I copy/pasted the working curly
>> quotes into jEdit I saw that they were displayed as curly quotes in the
>> input file.  How can I enter such quotes from the keyboard?  I usually
>> use Emacs in Linux but in this case I'm running jEdit on Windows.
>>
>> -David
>>
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