[XeTeX] babel or polyglossia?

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

Am 19.10.2009 um 22:35 schrieb Benjamin Koppe:

> I just thought about dropping the use of packeges ngerman and/or  
> babel and switch to polyglossia, as this seems to be the better  
> choice around xetex. Somehow I could not get German quotation marks  
> working.
> Usually there is either the \glqq and \grqq commands, or rather the  
> shortcuts "`and "'

Am I right that you are on a Mac? Then why not input the quotation  
marks directly -- it's simply Option+^ and Option+2 (or alt+^ resp. alt 
+2, if you prefer) to input „ and “, and Shift-Option-q and Option-q  
for » and «.

On Windows you have to type Alt + a certain number combination to  
input quotation marks directly.

See http://jendryschik.de/wsdev/einfuehrung/grundlagen/zeichenkodierung#tab210 
  or masses of other sources on the web

Joachim

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