2
votes

I am using memoir class with latex, and I need the two characters:

"«", and "»".

I found the following commands:

\guillemotright and \guillemotleft, but they look very ugly. Is there something wrong in what I am doing? Latex source:

http://pastebin.com/1w0J6jbN

Result: enter image description here

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks!

—Albé

2
I don't think there is anything wrong in what you are doing, but you are perhaps being a bit critical of the appearance of the guillemots. Ugliness, after all, is in the eye of the beholder. You might have a more pleasing result if you choose a different font (family or set) for your document,High Performance Mark

2 Answers

2
votes

There are these chractrers in the russian font

{
\font\larm = larm1000
\larm
\char 190 \char 191
}

alt text http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/2119/overbrace1.png

2
votes

i recommend to

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

and even

\usepackage{aeguill}

from the french language pack. this way you can simply write your guillemets and you dont have to use \guillemotleft and \guillemotright