Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Libertine right quotation mark is "dumb".

[Fionn]

Hi,

I've been using LaTeX for a while now, but never delved very deep into changing the fonts. I have a document I'd like to set in Linux Libertine, but the right quotation mark is output as ", rather than ”. Here's a minimum working example:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine}
\begin{document}

``The street's the best education you can get."

\end{document}

I've attached a .png of my output.

My output.

libertine.PNG (13.88 KiB) Viewed 5498 times

It seems very strange to me that I'd be having this problem for such a popular LaTeX font, as I couldn't find reference to it anywhere on the internet. My compiler is pdfTeX-1.40.10.

[meho_r]

It's not Libertine's fault, it simply displays what you have entered, and the way you entered closing quotation mark is wrong: you should type an apostrophe twice, not using plain quotation mark.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine}
\begin{document}

``The street's the best education you can get.''

\end{document}

[Fionn]

Oh! Well, this does seem to be somewhat libertine specific. I've been using double quotes for everything else and they work fine, at least in Computer Modern, Bitstream, Helvetica, etc. Have I been engaging in bad LaTeX practice for years?

Thanks a lot!

[meho_r]

Not necessarily. It is possible to use double opening/closing quotation marks, but those should be the "real" marks, not the "plain" ones. TeXWorks, for example, has some sort of autocorrect mechanism which inserts automatically the "real" quotation marks (Format > Smart Quotes > Unicode Characters) or TeX's marks `` and '' (Format > Smart Quotes > TeX Ligatures).

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{libertine}

\begin{document}

``The street's the best education you can get.''

"The street's the best education you can get."

“The street's the best education you can get.”

\end{document}

[Montag]

The same goes for TXC v1.0 Stable RC 1:

Unbenannt.JPG (44.25 KiB) Viewed 5484 times

Read:
Substitute quotation marks

Predefined:

• English
• German
• French
• Customized

When choosing "Customized", two more fields are unmasked and one can enter the LaTeX code directly he wants to be written down when pressing "SHIFT + F2".