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>     He said \quote{foo}, she replied \quote{bar}, and so on.
> Then LaTeX uses a lookup in the current typesetting style (logical,
> illogical, UK English, US English, etc) to determine if the quotes should
> be single or double and the preferred style of nesting and so on.

I think this is a great idea.


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