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r-markdown: German quotation marks for pdf_documents

I coudln't find out how to use the "lang: de" option (link) properly. That is, while tables are correctly named "Tabelle", the following settings:

---
title: "German quotation marks"
author: "will"
date: "24 Jänner 2018"
output: pdf_document
---

"Das ist sehr schön", sagte sie.

Produce this output:

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whereas the following is needed:

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Solution

  • Following Tobi we can define language and use latex package csquotes.

    ---
title: "German quotation marks"
author: "will"
date: "24 Jänner 2018"
output: pdf_document
lang: de
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{csquotes}
---

"Das ist sehr schön", sagte sie.

    Yields:

    enter image description here