[texhax] typset mistranslates the anglbrackets

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 16, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Maurice Karnaugh <unclej0 at optonline.net> wrote:

> When I have < or > in ordinary text in a Tex file, typeset interprets them as the Spanish symbols: upside down ! or upside down ?, respectively.
> 
> How can I fix this?  I would like to use the angle brackets.
> 
> Maurice Karnaugh
> karnaugh_m at yahoo.com

Howdy,

How about using xetex with UTF-8 Unicode and an OTF System Font:

\font\tenrm="Times" at 11pt
\font\tenit="Times Italic" at 11pt
\font\tenbf="Times Bold" at 11pt
\font\sevenrm="Times" at 8pt
\font\fiverm="Times" at 6pt%\font\rm="Minion Pro" at 11pt
\rm
Here are < and >. {\it Here are < and >.\/} {\bf Here are < and >.}
\bye

since that uses Plain as the format.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)