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Smartquote

smartquote

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.

#smartquote(
  double: bool,
  enabled: bool,
  alternative: bool,
  quotes: auto | str | array | dictionary
) -> content

Parameters

• double:
  • description: Whether this should be a double quote.
  • type: bool
  • default: true
• enabled:
  • description: Whether smart quotes are enabled. To disable smartness for a single quote, you can also escape it with a backslash. typst #set smartquote(enabled: false) These are "dumb" quotes.
  • type: bool
  • default: true
• alternative:
  • description: Whether to use alternative quotes. Does nothing for languages that don't have alternative quotes, or if explicit quotes were set. typst #set text(lang: "de") #set smartquote(alternative: true) "Das ist in anderen Anführungszeichen."
  • type: bool
  • default: false
• quotes:
  • description: 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: a dictionary containing the double and single quotes, each specified as either auto, string, or array typst #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.\'
  • type: auto | str | array | dictionary
  • default: auto