On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:38:34 +0200
Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 26.07.22 um 11:48 schrieb Arthur Rosendahl:
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:51:35PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Hi, according to my knowledge (and also Wikipedia), French uses « … » as double (\quotation) and ‹ … › as single (\quote) quotation marks.
The current setting in ConTeXt however is « … » for both, just with less spacing for \quote. If no francophone user objects I’d suggest to fix this.
I object :-) Single chevrons are not used at all in typography from France. I read however on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet that they are in Switzerland, hence if that can be confirmed there could be an option for Swiss French; but in the mean time I think that the current setup should stay as it is.
Ok, thank you! So the German Wikipedia as well as “DUDEN Satz und Korrektur“ are wrong.
I agree with Arthur. The use of < > would be an anglicism. Alan