Your Mac may be set up to do automatic substitution of the curly-quotes in place of the straight quotes.
In System Preferences > Language and Text , look for the "Smart Quotes" option. You may need to turn that off while you're working on a TeX document. --RC On 03/27/2014 10:57 PM, Conor Cook wrote: > That’s just it! I’m not sure how to get the latter. I am on a Mac, and all > I know is Shift+’. > > ~Conor Cook > > On Mar 27, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Richard Chonak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> By the way, I notice that your example >> >> \” >> >> uses a right-leaning quotation mark (”) instead of the more conventional >> computer quotation mark (") >> >> Which one is in your LaTeX document? >> >> --RC >> >> >> On 03/26/2014 10:58 PM, Conor Cook wrote: >>> Thank you, RIchard. Unfortunately, the issue is about creating an article >>> document that includes a Gregorio score. It seems I am unable to >>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}, which means I can’t use the “special >>> characters.” >>> >>> I am in no rush. I am just looking to anticipate a problem that may come >>> down the road (possibly years; e.g. I’m writing a paper about some German >>> composer, Schütz, say, and need to include a Gregorio score). >>> >>> Still, thank you for the prompt reply :) >>> >>> ~Conor >>> >>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 9:52 PM, Richard Chonak <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't used umlauts, but I often use accented characters, and they >>>> look fine. Instead of coding them in LaTeX notation, I just include them >>>> in the input file (the GABC file), either by typing a key combination or >>>> by using my computer's "special characters" utility. >>>> >>>> The umlaut-characters for German, for example, would be: äöüÄÖÜ (feel >>>> free to copy and paste these :-) ) >>>> >>>> --RC >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 03/26/2014 10:21 PM, Conor Cook wrote: >>>>> Dear All, >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have experience with LaTeX and umlauts? I have discovered >>>>> that \” results in an accented apostrophe, which is somewhat useless. >>>>> Even when I make sure that I have typed quotation marks, TeXworks >>>>> replaces it with two apostrophes. Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Conor >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Gregorio-users mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Gregorio-users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
