Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ apostrophe

[sidkat2006]

how do i get two apostrophes in the opposite direction .like ′′eagle.′′.In latex of the same form but their direction should be opposite.

[frabjous]

I'm not sure exactly what you want. You don't want "smart quotes", but straight quotes, but slanted in opposite directions?

You might try the \textacutedbl and \textgravedbl commands from the textcomp package.

If you do want genuine smart quotes, just do ``this''.

[sidkat2006]

yes i want the quotes like ' ' but in the opposite direction.I write them between $' ' $.I get the desired result but they are both in the same direction.

[frabjous]

I really don't see why you'd want to do this, but since you do...

The solution I suggested above---using the textcomp package with the \textacutedbl and \textgravedbl should work out just fine.

$''$ doesn't really give you apostrophes at all, but superscribed prime symbols---used to differentiate related variables in mathematics. It's the same as $^\prime$. Another approach, I suppose would be to use the \backprime command from the AMS Symbols (amssym) package, also superscripted. Those are larger than the ones from textcomp package, and perhaps not as attractive for this purpose.

To compare the two results, compile this small document:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}

\textgravedbl eagle\textacutedbl

$^{\backprime\backprime}$eagle$^{\prime\prime}$

\end{document}

[sidkat2006]

hey it worked!Thanks a lot!