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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Dear Jon,

 I just copy here the answer already given in the forum (for reference), that 
is, you can type "' tab" to get the glyph that you want.

Best
Max


> On 30. Apr 2022, at 12:47, Jon Sterling <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Dear TeXmacs user list,
> 
> I am experimenting with using TeXmacs to prepare some lecture notes and 
> it's really cool so far! I have one little problem that I hope you can help 
> me with. When I am using a font other than the default (such as Linux 
> Libertine), I notice that the rendering of apostrophes is as tick marks ['] 
> rather than a proper apostrophe [’]. For example, here is an example of a 
> piece of text I cannot get to look write when I type it in:
> 
>    In the spirit of Halmos’ book, 
> 
> If I enter that into TeXmacs using the apostrophe key, it is rendered as a 
> straight tick mark. I am on the macOS platform, and so I also tried using 
> the system-wide keyboard shortcut to insert an actual curly apostrophe 
> (alt-shift-]) and this had the same effect.
> 
> Can you provide some advice for how I should enter apostrophes into TeXmacs?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Jon
>