Latex and Memoir class, guillemot left/right

Question

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:

Result: enter image description here

Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks!

—Albé

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, Jun 12 '10 at 23:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '10 at 07:15

2

There are these chractrers in the russian font

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

answered Jun 13 '10 at 07:15

Alexey Malistov

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '10 at 11:45

2

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

answered Dec 03 '10 at 11:45

skomp

2 Answers2