Is there any way to automatically move periods inside quotation marks? (csquotes doesn't seem to work)

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csquotes doesn't work in this case, maybe because I'm using a custom command:

\documentclass[12pt, letter, american]{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[autopunct,style=american]{csquotes}
\newcommand{\qq}[1]{\textquote{#1}}
\begin{document}
This is an \qq{example}.
\end{document}

\qq will not move the trailing period into the quotation, e.g. This is an \qq{example}. will still yield This is an “example”. I have written a book using \qq and would like to change the quotation styles to one which moves periods and colons into the quotes. Is there a safe way to achieve this automatically? Maybe a package different from csquotes? The only solution I've found on the net so far didn't work with spacing correctly.

I have changed the question accordingly. The `autopunct` option doesn't work. I'm looking for a robust solution that doesn't require me to change the markup (which may not include the period). — Eric '3ToedSloth', May 12 '21 at 12:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '21 at 12:41

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See the csquotes documentation, section 9.2:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[autopunct,style=american]{csquotes}
\renewcommand{\mktextquote}[6]{#1#2#4#5#3#6}
\newcommand{\qq}[1]{\textquote{#1}}
\begin{document}
This is an \qq{example}.
\end{document}

answered May 12 '21 at 12:41

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That works! Thank you so much! (Kind of strange they have a global option that only works when you redefine a command, but I should have checked the docs more carefully.) – Eric '3ToedSloth' May 12 '21 at 16:48

Is there any way to automatically move periods inside quotation marks? (csquotes doesn't seem to work)

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