Comillas latinas or comillas angulares (« »)

Question

I have a picture of the (international) Spanish keyboard on my desktop. However, I d not find the «comillas latinas» or «comillas angulares» (« ») commonly used to cite quotations in Spanish and, as I have discovered, in many other languages, too.

I managed these (« ») for this post by copying them from a Wikipedia article about Quotation Mark, non-English Usage

Can someone tell me how I might more easily enter these symbols? I don't want to always have to go find text elsewhere to copy:-(

Answer 1

Hi Janice,

You can get these «» by using the following key combinations:

alt + 0171 = «

alt + 0187 = »

However, you must type the numbers using the number keys on the left of your keyboard (the number pad).

Answer 2

(Shift +) Opt + \ = « (or »)

Answer 3

What has always annoyed me is that you can't use the long dash with this editor (at least, not easily) to mimic Spanish's use of it in dialogues. If we could, we wouldn't need to use the «» so often.

Keep in mind that it is extremely common when printing dialogue in Spanish to dispense with quote marks entirely and use a long dash ( — ), sometimes known as an em dash (raya in Spanish), to indicate the beginning and end of the quotation or a change in speaker

Answer 4

What has always annoyed me is that you can't use the long dash with this editor (at least, not easily)

Alt + 0151 will get you the "m dash (—)"