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<div class="">On 5 Feb 2021, at 7:19 pm, Martin Wilhelm Leidig <<a href="mailto:listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de" class="">listwatch@moss.in-berlin.de</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Use smart quotes and dashes<br class="">
for Double Quotes<br class="">
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To clarify, you probably want these OFF.<br class="">
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Nope.<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">TeX handles the quotes itself, from (double) the left and right straight quote characters.<br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Also turn off the extended dashes, so that repeated hyphens do NOT switch automatically into the endash (twice) or emdash (thrice) UTF8 characters.<br class="">
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The “--” –> “–” switch gives a problem when writing TikZ or MetaPost.<br class="">
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<div>Not just these, but *any* situation where you want verbatim input;</div>
<div>e.g. </div>
<div>1. computer coding in whatever language,</div>
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<div>2. when updating manuscripts from past work</div>
<div>3. collaborating with multiple authors who have grown up in different ways.</div>
<div>(e.g., for proceedings-like documents)</div>
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<div>In short, you need to be aware of what your input actually *means*,</div>
<div>and adjust your editing software (if necessary) to be able to handle it.</div>
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<div>When working collaboratively, you simply *cannot* assume that all your </div>
<div>co-author's contributions are going to be using exactly the same input conventions.</div>
<div>(read "settings on their editor software")</div>
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<div>There are many situations where your input may look correct in the editor,</div>
<div>but "does it produce the correct result in the PDF?"</div>
<div>e.g.,</div>
<div>the – may look correct for a minus sign in mathematics, but it just is *not*. </div>
<div>You want the ascii - (which looks too short) and let math mode sort it out.</div>
<div>UTF8 input contains many such traps.</div>
<div>I’m not saying to not use it — but to be aware of what you type </div>
<div>and make sure you understand what it actually produces in the context</div>
<div>where it is being used.</div>
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However, these switches are not needed anyway, because you can simply enter “–” and “—”.<br class="">
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<div>If you know, yes; and have adapted your font usage accordingly.</div>
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<div>But there are plenty of situations where this will *not* be happening,</div>
<div>and you may end up with missing characters – with the resulting error message </div>
<div>only appearing in the .log file (*not* the console window) so is never seen.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Such editor ‘features’ are actually a nuisance; especially when you are working collaboratively.<br class="">
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If all collaborators use UTF-8 there’s no problem at all.<br class="">
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<div>Provided they keep a close eye on the .log file.</div>
<div>But most people who learn (La)TeX in the 21st century never bother to look at that. </div>
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Martin Wilhelm Leidig<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>
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Twitter @TeXniker (TeX- und Dante-Kram), @Moss_the_TeXie2 (Kram)<br class="">
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<div class="">Cheers.</div>
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confidential information. If you are not the</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">intended </span><br style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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please delete it and notify the sender. Views</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">expressed </span><br style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none;" class="">
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this message are those of the individual sender, and</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">are
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