In the minted package, how do I enforce straight single quotes?

Question

Basically I want

\mint{python}|'banana'|

to produce straight single quotes, rather than the curly ones it normally produces (in pdflatex).

Not quite related to the q., but searching for the problem led me here: Outside of verbatim, you can use \char18 and \char13 to get modified ` and ' characters. — Mohan, Nov 20 '12 at 11:12

Marco Daniel · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31T10:13:17.240

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You can use the package upquote. Note the package loads the package textcomp

The package upquote works also with listings.

% !TEX program  = pdflatex --shell-escape

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{upquote}
\begin{document}
\mint[fontfamily=tt]{python}|'banana'|
\end{document}

The result:

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If you are using pygmentize version 1.6 that the package upquote can't do its job. To fix this issue you can use the following hack:

\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{upquote}
\AtBeginDocument{%
\def\PYZsq{\textquotesingle}%
}
\begin{document}
\mint[fontfamily=tt]{python}|'banana'|
\end{document}

Note if you are working with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX the hack isn't needed.

edited May 31 '13 at 10:13

answered Mar 09 '12 at 20:17

Marco Daniel

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For anyone who comes across this later: the upquote package modifies all verbatim text (\verb and the verbatim environment) to render ' and \`` as the upright versions, not the “smart”‘and’`. Since (as I understand it) minted and listings rely on fancyvrb, which itself calls out to verbatim text under the hood, this has the desired effect. – Antal Spector-Zabusky Sep 27 '12 at 06:02
On Mac OS 10.8.3 (if that matters), that still gives me curly quotes... – jub0bs May 30 '13 at 15:22
@Jubobs: Do you working with TL2013? – Marco Daniel May 30 '13 at 15:24
@MarcoDaniel This is embarrassing -_- but I'm not sure which version of TeX Live I have. How do I check that? Would the TeX Live Utility tell me that or do I need to type some code in the terminal? – jub0bs May 30 '13 at 22:59
@Jubobs: In the terminal you can do latex -v – Marco Daniel May 31 '13 at 08:33
@MarcoDaniel Thanks. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012). – jub0bs May 31 '13 at 09:18
@Jubobs: We could locate the issue. When you use xelatex or lualatex it works. It seems this is a bug of pygmentize version 1.6. With version 1.2 it works. – Marco Daniel May 31 '13 at 10:05
@Jubobs: Please see my edit. – Marco Daniel May 31 '13 at 10:13
@MarcoDaniel Works like a charm now. Thanks. You're a guru! – jub0bs May 31 '13 at 10:16
Did you intend to leave \listfiles in there? – Michael Mrozek Oct 01 '13 at 05:08
@MichaelMrozek: Not really. It's a copy paste issue. – Marco Daniel Oct 04 '13 at 07:22
I find that the answer given here does not work in the presence of the mathspec package, either. – brannerchinese Nov 08 '13 at 04:47
@brannerchinese: Using mathspace includes that you are compiling with XeLaTeX. In this case the package or the "hack" isn't necessary. – Marco Daniel Nov 08 '13 at 08:27
@MarcoDaniel: Compiling with XeLaTeX, I nonetheless see backticks converted to curly open single quote within lstlisting when used with \upquote. – brannerchinese Nov 09 '13 at 15:43

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