Thank you Taco and Mojca. I had tried with \guillemotright and \guillemotleft based on a latex manual I found in the web. Since it didn't work, I then tried the \ll and \gg combination. Thank you Taco for the right syntax of the keywords. Ciro On 12/27/05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On 12/26/05, Ciro Soto wrote:

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Invisible Friends:

I am trying to use \ll and \gg instead of quotation marks. The problem is that they are too big for my taste. What would be the easiest way to make them, say 0.75\bodyfontsize ?

I guess that \leftguillemot instead of "\ll" already solves the problem, but if you really want to scale them, it's most elegant to do it this way:

\installlanguage [es] [leftquotation={\scale[height=.75ex]{\leftguillemot}}, rightquotation={\scale[height=.75ex]{\rightguillemot}}] % .75\bodyfontsize is way too big % or the ugly \fakeleftguillemot instead of \leftguillemot, as Taco proposed

\mainlanguage[es] \starttext \quotation{To quote or not to quote,} that's the question! \stoptext

(Even if you don't need to scale them, this is the way how to get guillemots instead of "double commas".)

The only problem is that they're scaled so that baseline remains where it is: quotation marks are placed too low because of that. So you probably want to do raise them a bit as well: \raise.25ex\hbox{\scale[height=.5ex]{\rightguillemot}}

Mojca

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