Re: tréma

William Atwood <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:24:41 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Organization Concordia University, Montreal
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 29/01/2017 9:14 PM, danpoe wrote:

> 
> I also detected that TeXworks interpretes the double quote " as two
> characters (twice ' ) although it should be a single character.
> I consider this as a severe bug.

No.  The double quote is "allowed" by LaTeX as a shorthand for two
successive quote marks.  This is a designed-in (desirable) feature, not
a severe bug.  Either a single "double quote" character or two
successive "single quote" characters will produce a "closing double
quote" in the output.

  Bill

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