I was wondering if anyone here knew how to create a “curly” apostrophe in LaTeX without having to type out the unicode character for it. I know that the csquotes package is an option, but this only appears to allow making curly single and double quote pairs. I don’t want quotes. I want a curly, single apostrophe.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • @nomadjoanneOPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    It isn’t, but I figured it out maybe. The apostrophe is curly when compiling with pdflatex, but not xelatex. I’ve been a fan of the latter because I write in several languages and I like unicode-by-default. I wonder why that’s the case though.

    • @asteriskEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Did you try my minimal example? I don’t use xelatex, but I’ve just tried running it on my example code and the output is the same as with pdflatex.

      • @nomadjoanneOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Yup. It worked perfectly with pdflatex but not with xelatex. I confirmed this with other files. I’ll just stick with pdflatex for now

        • @asteriskEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          That’s interesting. I wonder why we’re getting different results.

          Different versions of xetex, perhaps? I’m using

          XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Debian) (preloaded format=xelatex)

          A little out of date, as I haven’t got around to updating my Debian yet.

          • @nomadjoanneOPEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            XeTeX 3.141592653-2.6-0.999995 (TeX Live 2023/Arch Linux)

            Mine a bit newer. That said, newer sometimes means buggier, the downside of being on a rolling release. I have a Debian server though. I’ll install texlive and try it there maybe.