{fontspec} is a package for loading {opentype} fonts in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
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Fontspec pb since update May 20th, 2013 on MiKTeX2.9 and Win7(32bit) [closed]
When I want to compile the file fonspec-example.tex with the latest version 2.3c of fontspec, I get an error (It didn't happen before):
fonspec.lua:45:attempt to call upvalue 'check_script' (a nil ...
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How do I use kpfonts with fontspec?
Is there a way to use kpfonts with fontspec ?
The math font is correctly used but just loading the kpfonts package is not enough for the text. If I add the \setmainfont line (see example) the kp font ...
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Proper way to use LaTeX fonts in XeLaTeX
What is the proper way to use LaTeX fonts, for example calligra or other fonts from the Font Catalogue in XeLaTeX.
Something like
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{Calligra}
doesn't work. ...
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fontspec: Load an italic text font so that it has the same x-height as the “main” (roman) text font
Suppose that one likes the "upright" shape of the font Sabon Next LT Pro, but prefers the "italic" shape of the font Garamond Premier Pro over the italic shape of Sabon Next. (Both fonts are ...
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using a Postscript Type 1 font with fontspec and LuaLaTex on MacOSX
I am having trouble using SabonLT which is a Postscript Type 1 Outline font. I have the font installed as a system font (as described here) rather than a local font. I'm running LuaLaTex on Mac OSX.
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How can I access a specific glyph in LuaLaTeX/Fontspec?
The OTF version of Minion Pro contains several Dingbats glyphs I would like to access. Some of them are not unicode, so I can not just copy the specific unicode character I want to access into my text ...
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XeLaTeX / XeTeX — fontspec and ornaments/dingbats [duplicate]
I would like to know if it is possible to use the ornaments contained in a font like Minion Pro from Adobe. I'm using XeLaTeX and fontspec (or mathspec), but I don't find information on ornaments in ...
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Is there a way to use different local font files for different font size in fontspec?
I am a big lover of the EB-Garamond fonts by Georg Duffner. As of now, he has made two sets of font files, EB-Garamond-8 and EB-Garamond-12, respectively for “design size 8pt” and “design size 12pt”. ...
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Problem while compiling template CV with: ' fontspec error: “font-not-found”'
I have somme problem while I'm trying to compile template CV from: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/friggeri-resume-cv .
I have install texlive-full package on Ubuntu and tryied to compiled this ...
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luatex 0.76 failed to generate some ligatures [closed]
I installed texlive 2013 today. After installation, luatex cannot generate ligatures for "fi fl ff", but it can for `` '' ---. xetex works perfectly here, after update.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
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Ligatures in (Graphite) TrueType fonts
When using ConTeXt MkIV (i.e. with the LuaTeX engine), I’ve noticed that ligatures don’t work properly for some TrueType fonts, even though they do work in LuaLaTeX or even LibreOffice. As far as I ...
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Ferial class option of evweek does not work with fontspec
I am trying to produce a two page weekly calendar using package evweek with the class option ferial.
The following file works fine:
\documentclass[a4paper,ferial]{evweek}
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Replace all standard LaTeX fonts with [arbitrary fonts] for journal submission
A physics journal I'm submitting to requests that image files not contain any non-standard fonts. Standard fonts, as far as they are concerned, are: Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Times-Bold, ...
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How to substitute one glyph sequence for another with OTF feature files in LuaTeX?
I am trying to do some sequence-for-sequence glyph replacement. As far as I can tell from the Adobe spec, the LHS and RHS of a "sub … by …" rule cannot both contain multiple glyphs; and in any case, ...
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Solving an unexpected interaction between ebgaramond and Franklin Gothic
Here's my MWE, and its output (XeLaTeX, TeXLive 2012 latest, Windows 7):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{ebgaramond} %%% <== This one
\setsansfont[%
]{ITC ...
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Creating my own font map for use with XeLaTeX [duplicate]
I want to create my own font map for use with XeLaTeX. What I want to do is what Natror is doing with the medial long S in his answer to this question:
Trouble with contextuals in LuaLaTeX with ...
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How to use \checkmark and Cambria Math?
In a document I need to use Cambria Math but at the same time be able to use \checkmark for an itemize environment. But as soon as I load unicode-math the checkmark disappears. Is there a work around ...
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How to properly install and use a new font with LuaLaTeX?
I have problems trying to get new fonts to work when compiling with LuaLaTeX. I'm working on Mac and use TexShop (with the MacTeX package).
It goes like this:
I downloaded for example the Cardo ...
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Changing the Greek math font with mathspec
I've recently changed from pdftex to xetex to be able to write documents in Bembo Std but I'm not quite there yet. While trying to typeset some notes from one of my classes, I tried to typeset Greek ...
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Does XeLaTeX automatically select optical sizes for a given font, if available?
I've been intrigued by a great feature of XeLaTeX (perhaps it was already a feature of (La)TeX) for a long time -- its ability to automatically select the appropriate optical size of a font for a ...
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Fake bold in LuaLaTeX
I am sometimes using a font that has no boldface, so I am wondering whether or not there is a way to use some fakebold-feature in LuaLaTeX.
The fontspec documentation explains a feature for XeLaTeX, ...
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telling luaotfload where to look for fonts
The documentation of luaotfload states that on Linux fontconfig is used to find the font locations. However all fonts I install in /usr/share/local/fonts edit: /usr/local/share/fonts(as I don't want ...
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Localise appendix numbering?
I'm using XeLaTeX with fontspec. I write Russian document and get appendix numbered with latin letters:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec} % enables loading of {True/Open}Type fonts
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Libertine Mono and lualatex
Using lualatex on latest TeXLive 2012 I am not able to select Libertine Mono by its full name via fontspec. luaotfload is finding the font and it is written into ...
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How do I create a visually pleasing tree hierarchy from a difficult to read CSV File (MySQL Export)?
Ok here is the deal: I am working on an endangered language project. The data is contained in a MySQL database. I can run a query to produce a hierarchy, but the hierarchy is difficult for humans to ...
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Russian language within figure captions in unicode-aware systems [duplicate]
When I try to compile the following document caption package seem to convert caption text to \cyr.. sequences and fontspec don't understand them. Is it possible do somehow get around that without ...
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Strange interaction between fontspec, lua and pgfplots
While trying to combine some Lua code with plots written in pgfplots something went completely wrong. I have no idea what causes the problem, as the error message is a bit opaque to me. Here is the ...
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microtype settings for dummies
More than a year ago, a friend of mine was totally excited about microtype features in LaTeX. He was talking about it quite a bit and then said to me: "Show me your document, let me input some lines ...
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Towards a \ucshape and \textuc command for uppercase text (XeTeX, LuaTeX)
While we have \textit and \textsc, \itshape and \scshape etc., there's no \textuc and \ucshape to typeset its argument in uppercase. There is \MakeUppercase, but -- as uppercase is not a font style -- ...
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Accent positioning on 'oe' character with feature file in fontspec
There is no accented glyph for the 'oe' character in Linux Libertine. When trying to form this character, the (acute) accent is centred over the 'e' half. I'm trying to get the accent over the centre ...
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How to prevent combining a character?
"EB Garamond" font combines ʿ character and the preceding letter.
Consider following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\begin{document}
aʿ bʿ cʿ dʿ ...
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Using multiple system fonts
I'd like to use 3-4 different specific system fonts (e.g., Georgia, HelveticaNeui Light, and Lucida Sans) with certain font sizes for different sections of a page. How would I do this?
Edit: Thanks ...
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Loading URW Garamond in TeX Live 2012 with fontspec
I can use URW Garamond as follows:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\textbf{Bold text} \\
Normal ...
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Changing the Ruby Font (for Pīnyīn)
Using ruby package to generate both furigana for Japanese and Pīnyīn for Chinese. I use individual \sf calls to individually switch each Pīnyīn from the Japanese font back to the default sans font. ...
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Load font from package directory using fontspec
I'm working on a LaTeX package (in fact it is a document class) that I want to make available for others to install in their texmf directory. In this package I'm setting up a default configuration for ...
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Bad interaction between fontspec and some lua code that performs string-related search and replace operations
I'm in the process of readying a LuaLaTeX package for "official" release to the CTAN, but I need to squash a few remaining bugs first. The bug described in this question concerns incorrect behavior of ...
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How to automatically adjust the emdash length according to current language?
In Russian typography the emdash, which is typed as the ligature --- in LaTeX, is 20% shorter than the standard emdash. The babel package cares this difference so that --- prints a shorter emdash if ...
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Changing space between atoms in Chemabove
Consider this example:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{chemfig}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\pdfmapline{+arial arial <8r.enc <sAarial.ttf}
\begin{document}
...
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Font Handling in XeTeX
Knuth's original Tex implementation uses TFM files to use font information for typesetting. Since XeTeX supports TrueType and OpenType fonts through fontspec package, how does it use these type of ...
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Change from old style numbers to lining numbers in lineno's linenumbers environment
I am using old style numbers in my document, but I prefer lining numbers in my line numbering environments (lineno's \linenumbers environment). How can I enforce this (without changing to another ...
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XeLaTeX Errors on Windows 7 [closed]
I'm trying to get a minimal XeLaTeX document to compile in Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.9. I have updated all of my installed MikTeX packages and am still getting many errors during compilation.
...
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How to get straight quotation marks?
How do I get straight quotation marks, i.e., " and ' in TeX? (No, \verb changes the font and this is unacceptable.)
[Edit] I forgot to mention that I’m using XeLaTeX, and fontspec is a necessity. ...
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Reduce compilation time for opentype fonts (otf)
I have some opentype fonts (otf) which I use with fontspec. Everything works fine.
During the compilation LuaLaTeX load the otf-files in a temporary file.
For example:
(load: ...
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Arabic bibliography with biblatex
I haven't found any mention of the possibility of inserting a bibliography entry with biblatex in Arabic script (Arabic in this case).
Is there any way I can do it?
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XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX different default font features
The following MWE is producing different outputs on XeLaTeX and LuaLateX:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{FoglihtenNo04-070.otf}
\begin{document}
ffi ew
\end{document}
...
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Font problem with XeLaTeX
When trying to compile my .tex file using the xelatex command in TeXmaker (with MiKTeX), I get this error message:
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "Linux Libertine O" cannot be ...
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Letterspacing/font expansion in LuaLaTeX
I am a few months into learning LaTeX. I would like to use microtype with LuaLaTeX and I would like to obtain letter spacing for my smallcaps. I've tried to follow some of the threads on the subject ...
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Punctuation in superscripting with Natbib in Xetex
I'm trying to use the achemso package for my bibliography and citations. I'm also trying to using Xetex to use the Minion Pro fonts. When I just typeset with LaTeX and do everything in Computer Modern ...
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List renders incorrectly
In output of following LaTeX markup, the list is rendered incorrectly. What is wrong with it?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\faFont[Script=Arabic]{Tahoma}
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XeTeX font problem (font-not-found) on Mac OS X 10.8
I installed Gotham font by copying otf files to /Library/Fonts/Gotham. Although Font Book cannot show the installed Gotham font properly (characters are borken), but Font Validation was fine, and it ...
