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The question How to make a real apostrophe or single-quote in LaTeX is my question too, but the answer points to a package upquote that affects the entire document. I need to display an apostrophe (U+0027) only a couple of times within the document. Otherwise I would like the general conversion to quote to take place.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec, xunicode, xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping = tex-text}

\begin{document}
\noindent I would like an apostrophe to appear in the word ap'ple (U+0027), but a right quotation mark (U+2019) when I quote the word `orange'.
\end{document}

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Sverre
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    So you actually want in some places to not have the typographically right apostrophe/right quotation mark (U+2019) but the vertical typewriter apostrophe ' (U+0027, the one that you get by hitting the ' key, which is the one that appears in the input)? How should LaTeX distinct between the two types of input? – Qrrbrbirlbel Feb 24 '13 at 21:09
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    @Qrrbrbirlbel: Presumably by having two distinct inputs ... – Sverre Feb 25 '13 at 12:06

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Solution 1: Markup for quotations

One simple way to do this would be to not use the Mapping=text-tex (which, BTW has been replaced with the Ligatures=TeX option) and use the csquotes package to manage your quoting. Here's an example:

% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}

\begin{document}
\noindent I would like an apostrophe to appear in the word ap'ple (U+0027), but a
 right proper quotations marks (U+2019) when I quote a word with double quotes:
 \enquote{orange} or single quotes: \enquote*{orange} or double quotes using the
 "Active Quotes" function of the package.
\end{document}

output of code

Solution 2: Define an apostrophe font and markup

Another way would be to load your font twice, once using the Ligatures=TeX and the other without, and then define markup for the apostrophe.

% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\quotefont{Linux Libertine O}
\newcommand{\apostrophe}{{\quotefont'}} % or just use {\quotefont text}


\begin{document}
\noindent I would like an apostrophe to appear in the word ap\apostrophe ple
(U+0027), or {\quotefont ap'ple} but a right proper quotations marks (U+2019) when I
quote a word with double quotes: ``orange'' or single quotes: `orange'.
\end{document}

output of code

In this solution, the markup for the apostrophe isn't actually necessary, since any text that is grouped with {\quotefont ... } will use the single quote as typed.

Alan Munn
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  • Both of these solutions seem to be perfect. In my specific scenario, however, it turns out that your pointing out the Ligatures=TeX is all I need, because in the cases I need the apostrophe to appear as an apostrophe, the font is not my main font, so I can just not include Ligatures=TeX as an option in my \newfontfamily\coolfont\{Name of my cool font} call. – Sverre Feb 25 '13 at 12:41
  • Another, and perhaps the easiest, solution is given in http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103076/turn-off-fontspecs-option-ligatures-tex-inside-document – Sverre Mar 20 '13 at 15:38
  • @Sverre The Mapping solution only works for XeLaTeX and can't be extended to LuaLaTeX, though. – Alan Munn Mar 20 '13 at 18:37
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Another method (I got the idea from reading 2 Font commands in the XeTeX reference (texdoc xetexref)):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{libertine}

\newcommand{\apostrophe}{\XeTeXglyph\XeTeXcharglyph"0027\relax} 

\begin{document}
\noindent I would like an apostrophe to appear in the word ap\apostrophe ple
(U+0027) but a right proper quotations marks (U+2019) when I
quote a word with double quotes: ``orange'' or single quotes: `orange'.
\end{document}

Here is the result (also tested ok with other fonts):

right quote