Bastien writes: > Yes, this is also what the French national printing press ("Imprimerie > nationale"), which is quite authoritative in this matter, recommends. > > Note that the Full recommendation of the Imprimerie nationale is to > repeat second-level quotation marks at the beginning and of each line > when the text spans over several lines, like this: > > Then X reported : « This is what Y said : « Here is > « a quotation with a paragraph spaning over several > « lines, with each line starting with a quotation mark > « until the end of the quotation. » > > (The unique » at the end is intentional, the rule is to not repeat.)
I've been looking at the babel-french documentation (LaTeX) (http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/french/frenchb.pdf), which claims to be based on "Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l’Imprimerie Nationale, troisième édition (1994)"; p. 3 is about quotation marks and the different options: ----- with all engines: the inner quotation is surrounded by double quotes (“texte”) unless option InnerGuillSingle=true, then a) the inner quotation is printed as ‹ texte › and b) if the inner quotation spreads over more than one paragraph, every paragraph included in the inner quotation starts with a ‹ or a › or nothing, depending on option EveryParGuill=open (default) or =close or =none. with LuaTeX based engines, it is possible to add a French opening or closing guillemet (« or ») at the beginning of every line of the inner quotation using option EveryLineGuill=open or =close; note that with any of these options, the inner quotation is surrounded by French guillemets (« and ») regardless option InnerGuillSingle; the default is EveryLineGuill=none so that \frquote{} behaves as with non-LuaTeX engines. ----- I have tried this example with quotes per line: https://i.imgur.com/od4HwUs.png In any case (apart from LaTeX), it is clear that I was wrong when I said that the inner quotes that my patch 'corrects' were 'incorrect'. What I don't know is why babel-french defaults to the « “inner” » style. Is it the most used currently in France? If the « « inner » » style is more canonical, I don't mind having my patch 'fix' reverted. -- Juan Manuel Macías https://juanmanuelmacias.com https://lunotipia.juanmanuelmacias.com https://gnutas.juanmanuelmacias.com