display quotation marks in latex

[Juan Felipe Contreras]

Dear all,

I would like to make a macro such that I can type in latex something between `` and ". The current state of my code is something like this:

local say = "There is too much noise."
file write document `"``say""' _n

However, the ` and " seems to cancel out the outside brackets. Can anyone help me with this? I would like my peace of code in tex to be:

``There is too much noise"

[William Lisowski]

Perhaps the following is what you want.

. tempfile gnxl

. file open document using `gnxl', write

. local say = "There is too much noise."

. file write document `"\`\``say'""' _n

. file close document

. type `gnxl'
``There is too much noise."

.

[Juan Felipe Contreras]

Sorry I just tried that and I get:

. type document
file document not found

[William Lisowski]

The type command requires a filename not a file handle from the file open command. You should use the same filename on the type command that you used in the using clause on the file open command.

[Juan Felipe Contreras]

Thank you. A further question I have is how to write a longer sentence that includes the local.

file write document "The sentence `say'"

such that the code types in the tex:

The sentence ``the is too much noise"

[William Lisowski]

file write document `"The sentence \`\``say'""' _n