[OS X Emacs] Puzzle about quotes in LaTeX mode

[Marc Shapiro -- at work]

Found a solution (thanks to stackexchange).  Put the following in your .emacs:

	     (setq TeX-quote-language-alist
		   `(("french" "«" "»" ,TeX-quote-after-quote)))

for inserting french guillemets, or 

	     (setq TeX-quote-language-alist
		   `(("french” “``” “''" ,TeX-quote-after-quote)))

for inserting standard tex/latex quotes.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to search for a fix to this problem that has been annoying me for a while!

						Marc

> Le 31 déc. 2015 à 21h09, Stephen Anderson <sra at yale.edu> a écrit :
> 
> Further exploration shows that a number of people have tried to solve this problem, which results from the determination of the babel package to control the insertion of quotation marks (among other things) on a language-specific basis.  I find lots of questions, but no (straightforward) answers. Short of either (a) not using babel, which I need for other things, or (b) modifying my copy of babel so it won’t do this, does anyone know any way to suppress this behavior on a file-specific basis? Unfortunately, in a bilingual (French and English) document, this happens even within the scope of \selectlanguage{english}.
> 
> — 
> 
> Steve Anderson
> 
>> From: Marc Shapiro -- at work <marc.shapiro at acm.org>
>> To: macosx-emacs at email.esm.psu.edu
>> Cc: Stephen Anderson <sra at yale.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X Emacs] MacOSX-Emacs Digest, Vol 95, Issue 6
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>>> From: Stephen Anderson <sra at yale.edu>
>>> Subject: [OS X Emacs] Puzzle about quotes in LaTeX mode
>>> Message-ID: <48F338DC-8D76-4553-A0A3-5E76326B88FA at yale.edu>
>>> 
>>> [?]
>>> 
>>> Recently, and without warning, when I am typing in an Aquamacs buffer in LaTeX mode, I find that the ? key inserts ?\og ? (for open quote) and ?\fg{}? (for close quote), instead of ?``? and ???? respectively.
>> 
>> This happens with auctex if your file contains "\usepackage[francais]{babel}?
>> 
>> 					Marc
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