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.

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        A little out of date, as I haven’t got around to updating my Debian yet.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