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Usage
The{{"'}}template (or{{Double+single}}in long form) is for use at the beginning of a 'single-quoted' quotation that also begins a "double-quoted" quotation (or a double-quoted passage that begins with an apostrophe). Its purpose is to slightly space the double and single quotation marks apart for legibility, without actually inserting a space character. It does this withCSS,and does so because the insertion of an extranous space character of any kind would be a violation of thesemantic integrity of the web contentof the article or other page in which it appeared.
- Example (with highlighting added for clarity)
- Using the template:
Gonzales added,{{ "'}}Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos. "
- Gonzales added,"'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos. "
- For comparison, here is the completely unspaced version:
Gonzales added,"'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos. "
- Gonzales added, "'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."
- And here is the version with a semantically incorrect non-breaking space character:
Gonzales added," 'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos. "
- Gonzales added, "'Interesting times' is quite a euphemism for this chaos."
- When rendered, the non-breaking-spaced version looks similar to or the same as the template version, but improperly mixes content and presentation.
The equivalent template when used inside a template parameter that automatically provides double quotes (e.g.|title=in{{cite web}}) is{{-'}}(Template:Space+single). See also{{' "}}and{{'-}}for the right-hand side versions (manual and parameter, respectively).
See also
- {{'}}(Template:Apostrophe) – for use with adjacent italic markup
- {{`}}– for use with adjacent bold markup
- {{'s}}– for inserting an apostrophe and "s" immediately following italic markup
- {{`s}}– for inserting an apostrophe and "s" immediately following bold markup
- {{′}}(Template:Prime)
- {{''}}
- {{' "}}(Template:Single+double)
- {{ "'}}(Template:Double+single)
- {{' '}}(Template:Single+single)
- {{ "'" }}(Template:Double+single+double)
- {{' "'}}(Template:Single+double+single)
- {{- "}}(Template:Space+double)
- {{ "-}}(Template:Double+space)
- {{-'}}(Template:Space+single)
- {{'-}}(Template:Single+space)
- {{--)}}(Template:Space+parenthesis)(it's
--)because)and-)were already used by other templates) - {{(-}}(Template:Parenthesis+space)(using
(--also works, for consistency with the one above)