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Linguist
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Typewriter Apostrophe

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I'm typesetting a document in a language of Indonesia which uses the unicode character U+0027 (Also known as the `typewriter apostrophe' or `vertical apostrophe') as a letter of the alphabet (used to represent the glottal stop).

I'm looking for a way to input this character (U+0027) with the Times font, (or any font for that matter)

LaTeX automatically converts the input ' into the character U+2019, `right single quotation mark'. This is not acceptable as this character is used in this language for quotations.

Other characters which I've considered but are equally unacceptable include: prime and the tipa vertical stroke character.

For more information, see the Wikipedia article `Apostrophe'; I want the apostrophe on the right please!
Last edited by Linguist on Tue Nov 08, 2011 2:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Linguist
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Re: Typewriter Apostrophe

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After many hours of searching for a solution I accidently stumbled across one while looking for something else.

Load the textcomp package. Use the command \textquotesingle.

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bernie
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Re: Typewriter Apostrophe

Post by bernie »

Thanks for all your hard work, linquist! It only took me half an hour to find this page, answering precisely the question I had.
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