{fontspec} is a package for loading {opentype} fonts in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
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How to catch missing font error and use another font?
I write a TeX-document on two PCs, the files are transferred via USB-Stick.
The document should be printed with a specific font.
For legal reaons the font is only available on one PC.
When I ...
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fontspec does not work correctly. MiKTeX portable, no admin rights
I am trying to set up a TeX System at work, where I have no admin rights. So I went for MiKTeX portable. It is "installed" on my Desktop. I want to use fontspec with XeLaTeX to be able to choose the ...
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How to add LineFinal (falt) or WordFinal (fina) features to Garamond Premier Pro on XeLaTeX?
I'm still familiarizing myself with XeLaTeX and the fontspec package. I would like to access the OpenType feature LineFinal or WordFinal with the Garamond Premier Pro font from Adobe.
For example, I ...
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xetex - myriad pro - want “bold” but not “bold condensed” font
Situation: I've got Myriad Pro included in xetex via:
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Myriad Pro}
But when I use
\textbf{this is a test}
and see the result in Acrobat, I can see that I've gotten ...
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Bembo, Bembo Book or Garamond Premier Pro? And how to exploit all their features with LuaLaTex?
I am allowed to use one of these fonts (or the three of them if I want) to edit a document.
Here is the list of the Bembo fonts I have :
Bembo-Bold.otf Bembo-ExtraBoldOsF.otf
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Font Size Conversion
I am writing a document that is supposed to be typeset in Time New Roman or equivalent. The problem I have is that 12pt in font A is not the same as 12pt in font B. So is there a conversion table of ...
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fontspec: \setmainfont problem, bold/italic/bolditalic font error [closed]
A long time ago i posted about an error I occur when trying to set the mainfont using xelatex and the fontspec package, specifically the bold/italic/bolditalic fonts.
My previous post from 2011 is ...
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fontspec-color not working correctly with microtype package [closed]
If I use the fontspec package together with the microtype package, the color-feature of fontspec does only colarize the last line of the paragraph instead of the whole paragraph, as the grouped ...
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Automatic switching of math font based on current text font
I'm writing a document using xelatex and have set up my document fonts using fontspec as follows:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Numbers=OldStyle]{Linux Libertine O}
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Overriding `\bfseries` and `\itshape` to do special things for certain families
My problem arises from trying to work around the issue described in question 26276: I want to use SizeFeatures to explicitly select another family for small sizes, but this causes bold / italic / etc. ...
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Removing ligatures when using fontspec
This is a follow-up question to Currency symbol: French franc.
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\DeclareRobustCommand*{\myfranc}{%
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LuaTeX error (font expansion): font has been expanded with different expansion step
I am suddenly getting the following error when trying to compile my document with LuaLaTeX and my simple question is: what does it mean?
LuaTeX error (font expansion): font has been expanded with ...
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including font in .otf [closed]
I'm writing my thesis at a company and have to write it in their default font.
How can I set a .otf font in Latex (using Texmaker on Windows)?
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside,ngerman]{article}
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Turn off fontspec's option Ligatures=TeX inside document
This question is in some ways similar to Display real apostrophe in parts of a document, but I am now asking about the possibility of performing a specific operation.
I can turn on the typical TeX ...
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Is LuaLaTeX producing faulty pdfs?
If I compile the following minimal code with LuaLaTeX I seem to get a faulty pdf:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
text
\end{document}
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Reproducing Foreign Affairs Magazine's Style
I wanted to reproduce (or get something close to) the style the Foreign Affairs magazine uses (link to a sample article below) using fontspec and XeLaTeX. Right off the bat I don't know what their ...
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“Undefined control sequence” error with fontspec
As a result of the most recent TeXLive update, an XeTeX document I'm working on no longer compiles. I've narrowed down the problem to the "Color" declaration of a font I define. Here is a minimal ...
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Use Type 1 fonts with XeLaTeX
I read many things about XeLaTeX and I wanted to give it a try, but I wasn't able to figure out how to make use of Type 1 fonts, in my case especially the font Lucida, which I bought from pcTeX (which ...
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2answers
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Font cannot be found
I tried to generate a pdf file from the following document using pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX on Windows 7 (MiKTex 2.9). pdfLaTeX responded that I need to use XeLaTeX. When I used XeLaTeX, it said the the ...
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Glyph missing in footnote or header, but not body text in XeLaTeX [closed]
I am trying to typeset a thesis using XeLaTeX, in Polish language. I already managed to typeset it using PDFLaTeX, but I want a more elegant typeface (I chose EB Garamond). I am new to XeLaTeX though. ...
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Adobe Caslon Pro, XeLaTeX, fontspec - how to change the “dollar” symbol that's used with oldstyle numbers
I am using XeLaTeX with Adobe Caslon Pro, and I would like to have oldstyle numbers. But when I use the option Numbers=OldStyle in fontspec, my dollar sign changes from a full-height S with two lines ...
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TIPA: suppress tonestembar no longer works in fontspec
Most of the features in tipa from TeXLive2009 seem to be part of fontspec in TeXLive2012 -- if you activate both, you get an error message: "Command sups already defined".
The following code to ...
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Deciding Which Glyphs to Use in Font Encoding
I wanted to use one of my favorite fonts, Crimson, while still maintaining full support from the microtype package. Since XeTeX and LuaTeX are not fully supported by the microtype package (as of ...
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Is it allowed to use Cambria and Cambria Math fonts in a book? [closed]
What about commercial use of Cambria and Cambria Math OTF fonts? I mean whether a publishing house could take these fonts to print my book? As far as I know, the Cambria fonts are included with ...
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Using CJK (Chinese/kanji) characters in math using unicode-math on lualatex
I'm trying to persuade the unicode-math package to let me insert CJK characters (Chinese ideograms) in math formulæ. Here's a sample input (the first few lines are merely to check that basic ...
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Latex - Segoe font - font spec package
I am trying to create a presentation using latex (texmaker) - Beamer
I was wondering how to use segoe font in latex. I searched the forums like crazy to install the fontspec package but I had no ...
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How to suppress a “Rare” ligature that pre-empts a “Common” ligature for the same character pair?
In several documents I'm creating with LuaLaTeX (using MacTeX2012 on a Mac that's running MacOS X 10.7.5), I primarily use the Adobe-issued font Garamond Premier Pro as the main text font. I use this ...
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tipa with fontspec redux: tilde above characters
I'm trying to use the tipa package with fontspec, but they don't play nice together. I've read previous questions trying to solve the issues that come up (like this one), and that's the solution I've ...
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XeTeX/mathspec, more than one math digits font
When using the mathspec package, is it possible to have more than one math digits font in different places in the same document.
Mostly, I want the font for my math digits to be the same as my main ...
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fontspec, lua, microtype: Renderer=Basic no longer working for specific font styles
You may have noticed that, as of now,* letterspacing small capitals is not as easy as it was in pdfTeX, where we could simply combine \textsc with microtype's \textls. Consider this example, which ...
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tabular numbers in tables, proportional in text
I'm using LuaTeX with a font that has proportional, lining and tabular numbers available.
Is it possible to set things up so tables automatically use tabular numbers - but proportional numbers are ...
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Where can I indicate a new font directory? [closed]
It's been quite few days I started to use XeLaTeX to make my scholar reports.
And I still wonder what is the good way to indicate a new font to use in my document.
I've included the package fontspec ...
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Activating fi and fl ligatures with fontspec for Berling font
I have a font named Berling containing fi and fl ligatures on glyph 109 and 110. How can I activate these with lualatex? For the moment I am trying:
\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
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How to set lining numbers in math in Beamer (with EB Garamond) under XeLaTeX
I'm using EB Garamond with XeLaTeX and Beamer as follows. (I'm not actually sure whether it's all necessary--advice accepted.):
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % not sure why
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Spacing issue when using tocloft and fontspec together
I'm using tocloft for creating a List of Equations and I think there's no other way to avoid using this package.
However, everytime when tocloft and fontspec from XeLaTeX are used together the ...
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Test for old style numerals font feature (using fontspec)
Using XeLaTeX and fontspec, I want to test if the currently selected font has old style numerals (which I use in the main font, but not in the sans font). According to the fontspec documentation, it ...
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What math fonts are available that work in xelatex?
For LaTeX, we have the Font Catalogue which is a good resource for fonts available through LaTeX.
There doesn't appear to be a similar resource for Xe(La)TeX. So let's say I'm bored of computer ...
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Ornamental hyphenation character with Xe(La)TeX
Using Xe(La)TeX, how could the hyphenation character be set to any particular glyph in a given font? I'd also like to have the possibility to set a color for the glyph when used for that task and to ...
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Prevent LuaLaTeX from splitting umlauts
Here's a minimal example:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}\setmainfont{Cambria}
\begin{document}aöz\end{document}
Compiling this into a PDF using lualatex and extracting the text using ...
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Can TexText in Inkscape only load certain packages? - Or, how to recreate a page from a thread-bound Chinese book?
I've finally managed to install Inkscape 0.48 on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion. My TeX distribution is TeX Live.
I've installed TexText 0.4.4. and I can use the extension to write simple LaTeX text (I ...
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1answer
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XeLaTeX - Invalid Font: -1
I try to compile the following document using XeLaTeX:
\documentclass[twoside,openright,draft]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Univers 65 Bold}
\begin{document}
\section{Lorem ...
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Why did the fontsize of normal text change after dividing into included sub-files? [closed]
FIXED, SOLVED.
OLD SHORTEND QUESTION: As a last step of my template creation I divided my scrbook-file into several sub-files. Nearly everything worked: Font size of main font changed to appear ...
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Is there a way to use external font files with unicode-math?
I use fontspec with LuaLaTeX to load fonts from external file even if they are not installed on the system. Such as
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Path=fonts/,
Extension=.otf,
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fontspec usage with XeLaTeX under MiKTeX 2.9 and Win7Pro
I've a few questions about XeLaTeX and fontspec. Given:
EBGaramond12-SC.otf:Family: EB Garamond 12 SC
EBGaramond12-SC.otf:Subfamily: SC
EBGaramond12-SC.otf:Full name: ...
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XeTeX and Fedora: can't use OTF fonts
When trying to compile a document with XeLaTeX, I'm getting the following error:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "Linux Libertine ...
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How to assign distinct font, color and style to each sectioning environment of a document?
I am trying to compose with *TeX a document that looks like a GDR manual.
Basically I need to set a different font, style and color for chapter, section, subsection and subsubsection labels.
It is ...
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Alternates for specific characters & kerning
I am trying to change the stylistic set used for italic y in my document. I used Alan Munn's method, explained here: Use stylistic set variations only for certain glyphs.
It works properly, except ...
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Weird spacing with DejaVu Sans Mono with MiKTeX's XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans}
\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\textsf{Hello World!}
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Graphite features (Chinese Pinyin and low diacritics) on Gentium Plus
I'm trying to activate the Graphite features on Gentium Plus (Chinese Pinyin tone marks + low diacritics). This is my minimal example:
\documentclass[utf8,12pt,letterpaper]{article}
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Accessing IPA characters when using Charis SIL
When using Charis SIL, how do I access IPA characters? Are there handy macros, as with tipa.sty? If I have to set up my own encoding using unicode numbers, how is this best done? (Code from those ...
