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Frans Goddijn wrote:
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> How should I have looked up how to typeset the german character for ss, as

Besides \SS you can use "s if you switch to German via \language[de];
this has also
the advantage of using the German hyphenation.
(users of the latest beta version need to use deo for the old German
spelling and
de for the new one.)

Tobias