Feature request: Provide separate open and close quote commands

[schtandard]

I recently found myself wanting to typeset some verbatim text in quotation marks. Since all of the inline quotation commands provided by csquotes consume the text to be quoted as an argument, this is not possible using it. An interface to produce only the opening or the closing quotation mark would be useful for cases like this.

Maybe an environment would be best, so outer and inner quotes can still be selected automatically, though typing an environment inline would be rather akward.

[moewew]

Probably I misunderstand what you are looking for, but it seems to me that \openautoquote/\closeautoquote might help you.

\documentclass[british]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\begin{document}
Lorem \enquote{ipsum} dolor
\enquote{sit \enquote{amet} consectur}

Lorem \openautoquote ipsum\closeautoquote\ dolor
\openautoquote sit \openautoquote amet\closeautoquote\ consectur\closeautoquote
\end{document}

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If you don't want (or can't) use the automatic level selection, you can go full manual mode with

Lorem \textooquote ipsum\textcoquote\ dolor
\textooquote sit \textoiquote amet\textciquote\ consectur\textcoquote

Though in that case it may or may not be necessary to execute the hooks \initoquote and \initiquote in a group when you call the relevant marks.

[schtandard]

No, that's exactly what I was asking for, thanks for the hint. Just did not search that far back in the documentation.. It did seem a weird feature to be missing, though.