Quotation marks at LaTeX - How it works with the goose feet

Those who familiarize themselves with LaTeX usually stumble across the quotation marks at the beginning. This practical tip shows you how the goose feet get into the LaTeX document.

Enter German quotation marks in LaTeX

• You can get the introductory German quotation mark “by entering the code \ glqq in your LaTeX document.
• The final counterpart “has the code \ grqq {} in LaTeX. You need the braces so that a space is generated between the quotation mark and the following word.
• If you want to quote within a quotation, you need half quotes. You can get the lower one with \ glq, the upper one with \ grq {}.

German quotation marks with the packages german and ngerman

If you have included the german or ngerman package in your document, you will also receive the German goose feet with "` (introductory) and "'(concluding)

Enter English quotes in LaTeX

Even if both quotes are placed above in English, the introductory characters differ from the closing characters.

• In LaTeX, you form the English introductory quotes with two acute accents in a row, i.e. with the characters ``.
• Complete your English quote with two apostrophes in a row. So you write the character ''.

Enter French quotation marks in LaTeX

• The command \ flqq gives you the introductory French quotation mark «. With \ frqq {} you get the counterpart ».
• For half quotes, omit a q from the previous commands. With \ flq you generate ‹, with \ frq {}›.