When writing LaTeX documents in Emacs, it usually automatically replaces quotation marks "
by ``
or ''
, as it should. But sometimes, it incorrectly replaces by "`
and "'
instead. I am observing this in Emacs 23.4 supplied as version 23.4+1-4ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 13.04.
It happens in the below example:
\documentclass[danish]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
This is a "`test"'.
\end{document}
My guess is that babel and the language option danish
is causing this together with AUCTeX. If I change it to english
and reset AUCTeX, the problem disappears. If I change it back to danish
and reset AUCTeX it re-appears.
How can I fix this?
Best Answer
AUCTeX has a special support for many languages, for example it can help inserting quotes. For more information see the AUCTeX manual.
If you don't like the default style of quotes inserted by AUCTeX for a specific language, you can override it customizing the
TeX-quote-language-alist
variable. To do that add this to your.emacs
:In this way pressing
"
button twice you will get``
or''
according to context. Instead, if you want to insert``
and''
pressing"
button just once, add the following code to your.emacs
: