German Language Support

Use the following hints to add German language support:

Document layout

% ...
\usepackage[german,ngerman]{babel}
% ...
\begin{document}

Typographical quotation marks

"`Text"'

Umlauts

% Ä ä Ü ü Ö ö
"A "a "U "u "O "o

Depending on the context using the above notation will fail and you will have to fallback to:

% Ä ä Ü ü Ö ö
"A "a "U "u "O "o

sz

% ß
"s
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