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smartquoteElement

Element functions can be customized with set and show rules.

A language-aware quote that reacts to its context.

Automatically turns into an appropriate opening or closing quote based on the active text language.

Example

"This is in quotes."

#set text(lang: "de")
"Das ist in Anführungszeichen."

#set text(lang: "fr")
"C'est entre guillemets."

Syntax

This function also has dedicated syntax: The normal quote characters (' and "). Typst automatically makes your quotes smart.

Parameters

Parameters are the inputs to a function. They are specified in parentheses after the function name.

double

bool

Settable

Settable parameters can be customized for all following uses of the function with a set rule.

Whether this should be a double quote.

Default: true

enabled

bool

Settable

Settable parameters can be customized for all following uses of the function with a set rule.

Whether smart quotes are enabled.

To disable smartness for a single quote, you can also escape it with a backslash.

Default: true

View example

#set smartquote(enabled: false)

These are "dumb" quotes.

alternative

bool

Settable

Settable parameters can be customized for all following uses of the function with a set rule.

Whether to use alternative quotes.

Does nothing for languages that don't have alternative quotes, or if explicit quotes were set.

Default: false

View example

#set text(lang: "de")
#set smartquote(alternative: true)

"Das ist in anderen Anführungszeichen."

quotes

auto or str or array or dictionary

Settable

Settable parameters can be customized for all following uses of the function with a set rule.

The quotes to use.

• When set to auto, the appropriate single quotes for the text language will be used. This is the default.
• Custom quotes can be passed as a string, array, or dictionary of either
  • string: a string consisting of two characters containing the opening and closing double quotes (characters here refer to Unicode grapheme clusters)
  • array: an array containing the opening and closing double quotes
  • dictionary: an array containing the double and single quotes, each specified as either auto, string, or array

Default: auto

View example

#set text(lang: "de")
'Das sind normale Anführungszeichen.'

#set smartquote(quotes: "()")
"Das sind eigene Anführungszeichen."

#set smartquote(quotes: (single: ("[[", "]]"),  double: auto))
'Das sind eigene Anführungszeichen.'

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