[OS X TeX] Keyboard mystery?

[Martin Wilhelm Leidig]

Good morning,

am 21-02-01 um 20.19 schrieb Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au>:
> 
> On 02/02/2021, at 5:25, "Richard Koch" <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
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>> One possibility is in Apple's Systgem Preferences, Keyboard Unit, "Text" tab, the item
>> 
>> Use smart quotes and dashes
>> for Double Quotes
>> for Single Quotes
> 
> To clarify, you probably want these OFF.

Nope.

> TeX handles the quotes itself, from (double) the left and right straight quote characters.

Welcome to the 21. century.  If you want quotes handled automatically (btw getting them right for the language/dialect you’re writing in), use csquotes.  Otherwise use UTF-8, as does LaTeX by default from TL2019.

> Also turn off the extended dashes, so that repeated hyphens do NOT switch automatically into the endash (twice) or emdash (thrice) UTF8 characters.

The “--” –> “–” switch gives a problem when writing TikZ or MetaPost.

However, these switches are not needed anyway, because you can simply enter “–” and “—”.

> Such editor ‘features’ are actually a nuisance; especially when you are working collaboratively.

If all collaborators use UTF-8 there’s no problem at all.


… mit freundlichem Gruß:

-Moss-
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Martin Wilhelm Leidig	Dante #1580
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