BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ MLA style recommendation and quotation marks with XeLaTeX

[reclusesm]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a basic bibliography with BiBTeX (combined with XeLaTeX) in MLA style, with annotations (it's an annotated bibliography), but I've had no luck in finding an appropriate style file.

I've tried mla-good with natbib (produces `` and '' for quotes instead of real quotation marks, and also produces random horizontal spaces) as well as biblatex (which, for some reason, will only print out a select few references from my .bib file), but none of the above have met my requirements.

Are there any packages I could try, or am I better off just doing the references by hand?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

For the record, as I just noticed, for getting the correct quotation marks with XeTeX and XeLaTeX, respectively, the option Ligatures=TeX may be required. For example:

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\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Times New Roman}

The reason is, that quotation mark glyphs are ligatures. This option enables TeX like handling of ligatures, now also -- would become en dash and --- the em dash.

Stefan