[OS X TeX] Two missing characters

[Ettore Aldrovandi]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 04:47:49PM -0700, Don Green Dragon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The following has been puzzling me for a long time. There are two characters that I am unable get TeXShop/TeX to produce correctly on a preview page. They are
> 
> straight single quote ' 
> straight double quote "

One suggestion is to use the textcomp package. 

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\begin{document}
\textquotesingle Single quotes\textquotesingle

\textquotedbl Double quotes\textquotedbl
\end{document}

Hope this helps,
--Ettore 

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