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I'd like to do the text


with the quotation marks into a \texttt. However, when I do so, the first quotation mark is removed. I'm using the LNCS documentclass, I'm not sure if this has something to do with it. I also can't escape the first ", then it puts two dots above the c, which is wrong.

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1. Please add a minimal working example (MWE). \documentclass{llncs} \begin{document} \texttt{"conservative"} \end{document} does it here. 2. \" is not escaping. –  Qrrbrbirlbel Dec 9 '12 at 22:59
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this is a bit of a plain-tex hack, but it'll get you what you want.


you might want to make this into a command:

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Never mind the hack, this is nice. Thanks. –  LLNCS Dec 9 '12 at 23:29
@LLNCS You probably can avoid hacks; why didn't you provide a MWE? –  egreg Dec 10 '12 at 13:34
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