[XeTeX] Strange quotes symbol

Suki Venkat suki.venkat at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 04:39:33 CEST 2016


It almost worked fro me, just the quotes spoiled it.
I am just looking for an explanation of how such a strange thing appears
from nowhere.

​Suki​


On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  \textit{μ} requests Greek μ in italics from a text font while \mu is
> a math synbol that cannot properly work outside math and \textit
> switches the text style to italics.
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
> 2016-09-03 13:32 GMT+02:00 Suki Venkat <suki.venkat at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Whenever I use
> >
> > \textit{\mu}
> >
> > instead of the usual UTF-8:
> >
> >  \textit{μ}
> >
> > I get a strange quote symbol before the Greek mu in the PDF.
> > In the preamble I use:
> > \usepackage{mathspec}
> > \setmathsfont(Digits,Latin,Greek){Linux Libertine}
> > \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine}
> >
> > You can recreate the problem with any other Greek symbol or any other
> font
> > other than "Linux Libertine".
> > If we comment these lines in the preamble then I get the usual error
> message
> > saying missing dollar etc. but with the above preamble I get no such
> error
> > message but a PDF with a extra quote sign.
> >
> > Suki
> >
> >
> >
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