[OS X TeX] howto do smart (double) quotes with texshop

[Ross Moore]

> kp gores <kp.gores at web.de> writes:
> 
> > latex sequence for the german beginning/ending d.quote.
> > is it possible to have a similar feature with texshop?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i do not have texshop installed, but why don't you use the mac-roman
> double quotes (get with alt-^ and alt-2 on a german keyboard) and use
> \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}? 

This is not a solution that I would recommend, for anything but
short documents that are unlikely ever to be needed again
(e.g. one-off letters and short notes).

The problem is that your source code will become unreadable when
viewed on non-Mac platforms; and now that Macs have become Unix-boxes,
then you will have difficulties also with some Unix editors.

Exchanging files with co-authors, using PCs or Linux, will become
a nightmare. 

Extracting portions of your own documents for reuse will mean that
you will always have to check the font-encodings.

In future, the MacRoman encoding may disappear altogether, or you may
(god forbid) switch to a different platform, or MacRoman may even
become unsupported by Apple, as Unicode becomes more wide-spread.

In these events, your own documents will become difficult for you
to reuse yourself.


Is it really so hard to get into the habit of typing:

   ``beginning of phrase
   ^^---------------------- backquote character
     end of phrase''
                  ^^------- normal quote character 

and avoid using " unless you really need it; e.g. for accents
and other ligatures in European languages.
This will keep your documents fully compatible with other TeX users,
for all (?) time.


Hoe this helps,

	Ross Moore

 
> Patrick
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