[OS X TeX] Unexpected quotation marks

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sat Jun 9 10:41:42 EDT 2007


On Jun 9, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote:

> Deat TeXers,
>
> This file
>
> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatexmk
> %%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage[cm-default]{fontspec}
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setmainfont{Palatino}
>
> \title{Article}
> \author{Author}
> \date{}
>
> \begin{document}
> \maketitle
>
> should be ``quoted''
>
> \end{document}
>
> does not produce raised inverted commas at the beginning of the  
> text and raised commas at the end. Instead it produces pairs of  
> slanted apostrophes at both ends. Is this characteristic of  
> Palatino, or am I missing something in the preamble?

Howdy,

It does but you have to look carefully. Palatino's closing and,  
especially opening double quotes are particularly ugly to me.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



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