Curly quotes in non-default font with xelatex

Question

I have the following:

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont [Ligatures={Common}, Numbers={OldStyle}]{Palatino}

And compile with this:

xelatex main.tex

I use:

``word''

But the quotes are never curly as they should be. I can only get the curly quotes when using the default font.

Ideas?

Khaled Hosny · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-13 22:19:25Z

up vote 10 down vote accepted

You need to use the option Ligatures=TeX (or Mapping=tex-text for older version of fontspec), e.g.:

\setmainfont [Ligatures={Common,TeX}, Numbers={OldStyle}]{Palatino}

edited Jul 13 '11 at 22:19

answered Jul 13 '11 at 19:42

Khaled Hosny
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One should also use \setmainfont, as \setromanfont is deprecated in recent versions of fontspec. – egreg Jul 13 '11 at 19:53

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Yes, it works: "curly" quotes in Palatino are not curly. :) – egreg Jul 13 '11 at 19:54

@egreg - that didn't do it either – Honza Pokorny Jul 13 '11 at 19:54

Oh! Really? That's kind of odd, no? – Honza Pokorny Jul 13 '11 at 19:55

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