[XeTeX] Whoever said quotation-marks are unimportant?

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hello Ulrike,

Thanks for the info. Again an illustration of what I'd like to call the First Law of Latex:

"Somebody else has experienced your problem as well, and somebody has already written a stylefile to solve it"

An interesting paradoxical corollary to this Law would be:

"Writing Latex stylefiles is futile"

Thanks, I'll take a look at the csquotes.

Wilfred


--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de> wrote:

> From: Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Whoever said quotation-marks are unimportant?
> To: xetex at tug.org
> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 1:20 PM
> Am Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:10:50 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Wilfred van
> Rooijen:
> 
> > Hey all, 
> > 
> > In my neverending quest to make my documents look
> better, I have a
> > simple question: 
> > 
> > When using latex, I can make 'upturned double
> quotes' by typing ``.
> > Latex reads this as a 'special sequence' and
> puts the upturned double
> > quotes. If I do the same in xetex, I don't get the
> upturned double
> > quotes. How can I get the upturned double quotes in
> xetex, I don't
> > see it on my keyboard. 
> 
> Enable [Mapping=tex-text] in the font. Then `` will work
> again.
> 
> > 
> > As a related matter, in English (if I'm not
> mistaken), a quote is
> > opened with the 'upturned double quote' and
> closed by the normal
> > double quotes. In Dutch however, I think that the
> opening quote is
> > supposed to be normal double quotes, but on the
> baseline of the text,
> > like so: 
> > 
> > He said: ,, I don't know what you're talking
> about. You and your
> > quotes!" 
> > 
> > Is this possible in xetex, 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > or does one need a special font for this?
> 
> No. But I avoid all this hassle with different quote styles
> in different
> languages and use csquotes.sty:
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
> \usepackage[english,dutch]{babel}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage[babel]{csquotes}
> \MakeAutoQuote{«}{»}
> \begin{document}
> «Text»
> 
> \selectlanguage{english}
> 
> «Text»
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer 
> 
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