[texhax] complaints
William F Hammond
hmwlfsr at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 27 09:17:00 CET 2013
In reply to your comment about preferring \texttt{"}
to standard quotation marks, Bob Tennent writes:
> \usepackage{avant}
> \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
which, I assume, provides the font you want.
In that font standard quotation marks are themselves
rather plain, just slanted.
A comparison made be seen by compiling the small
document below.
-- Bill
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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{avant}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\newcommand{\odq}{\raisebox{0.5ex}{\footnotesize\texttt{"}}}
\newcommand{\tq}[1]{\odq#1\odq}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
Is ``this'' more ornate than \tq{that}?
\end{center}
\end{document}
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