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LaTeX: German and typography

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German quotation marks, the right dash and spaces where no line breaks: little things that show at once whether someone worked carefully.
📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German) 📝 Übungsdatei (.tex)

The video

In the video you see TeXstudio under Linux. The orange frame always shows the spot in question. Under Windows and macOS TeXstudio looks exactly the same. The practice file above is the state at the start of the video – so you can follow along with each part separately.

Subtitles are available in ten languages. Choose them at the bottom right of the video.

Contents of the video

  1. 0:00 What it is about
  2. 0:20 Quotation marks
  3. 0:57 Dashes
  4. 1:20 Non-breaking spaces
  5. 1:44 Refining justified text
  6. 1:59 Before and after
  7. 2:19 Hyphenation
  8. 2:46 Summary

The most important points

The most important points

\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes} and \enquote{…} → „…“ · - hyphen, -- dash and range (S.~45--47) · ~ non-breaking space (50~g, S.~112) · z.\,B. narrow space · \usepackage{microtype} for calm justified text.

With csquotes and \enquote{…} LaTeX sets the German quotation marks.
With csquotes and \enquote{…} LaTeX sets the German quotation marks.
Before and after: number and unit close together, degree sign directly at the number.
Before and after: number and unit close together, degree sign directly at the number.
Hyphenation: \- for one place, \hyphenation{…} for the whole paper.
Hyphenation: \- for one place, \hyphenation{…} for the whole paper.

The worksheet

Here you can see the worksheet for the video (in German). You download the practice files above and work in your own editor. The hints are printed upside down – turn the sheet only when you cannot get on by yourself. You can also open it as a PDF.

📄 Open worksheet (PDF, German)

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Try it yourself

Task

Write in LaTeX notation: “The mass was 50 g (cf. p. 12–15), e.g. at 10 °C.” – with German quotation marks around the whole thing.

Show solution

\enquote{Die Masse betrug 50~g (vgl. S.~12--15), z.\,B. bei 10~°C.} – with degrees Celsius there is a space (10 °C), with an angle there is not (10°).

Keep learning with a language model

Here is a paragraph from my LaTeX Facharbeit: [insert paragraph]. Mark all places where quotation marks, dashes or non-breaking spaces are missing or wrong, and explain the rule briefly each time. Do not correct the paragraph yourself.

How this was made: The idea and the choice of topics are mine. A language model (LLM) drafted the script, the sample paper, the tasks and this page following my instructions. The screen recordings were made automatically by a script in TeXstudio under Linux, which checked the finished PDF after every step: are margins, font, numbers and references right, are there warnings? The voice was generated with Qwen3-TTS, modelled on my own voice.

The sample paper about the thread pendulum is invented, and so are the person “Alex Beispiel” and the two sources in the bibliography.

The videos, worksheets, practice files, texts and prompts in this series are licensed under CC BY 4.0: you may use, change and share them if you name the source.