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General question: how do I change the mapping of a single character?

Details: I want all instances of ``, '', and --- to output a left single quote, a right single quote, and an en dash respectively. I need to do this for one of two copies of a document I'm making. The other will retain the default ...

@keta Thanks. I was a bit confused about the "the"(foo) commands.

@localhost Thanks. The references as you said seem quite basic, though they clarify a lot of general points such as the meaning of all those @'s. I had been hoping to find something that would walk me thru such details as changing ...

Since I don't have any access to good documentation, I'm trying to learn how to write a LaTeX class by googling for class and style files. However, I can't seem to produce automatic numbers using any combination of \newcounter \setcounter or \stepcounter.

So could somebody provide me with the ...