[OS X TeX] Quoting in XeLaTeX

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote:

> How should one produce proper quotation marks in XeLaTeX?  
> Apparently, the regular LaTeX way, i.e.
>
>         ``something in quotes''
>
> (opening with two backquotes and close with two forward quotes)  
> works if no specific font is indicated, but as soon as one selects  
> a font the above
> just places the same back- and forward quote characters, yielding  
> an ugly output...
>
> A minimal example:
>
> %%%%%%%
> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
> \documentclass{book}
>
>
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>
> \font\txt="Verdana" at 10pt
>
>
> \begin{document}
> \txt
> ``something in quotes''
> \end{document}
> %%%%%%%%
>
>
> Luis Sequeira
>

Howdy,

Use \setmainfont rather than \font\txt and, later \txt and it all  
works properly.

**************************
%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Verdana}

\begin{document}
``something in quotes''
\end{document}
**************************

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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