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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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luaotfload cannot load system font [closed]
(I have asked this question in comp.text.tex and lualatex-dev@tug.org mailling lists, but I still haven't got any reply. I know this website is not for bug report, but since no developer responded me, ...
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More than one width of a glyph in LaTeX or LuaLatex
I don't know where I can ask about it.
I have font with 2 or 3 versions of letter 'a'.
How I can put this information to LuaLaTeX, LaTeX etc.?
When the paragraph are breaking/making LaTeX made ...
2
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1answer
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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 ...
5
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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 ...
6
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1answer
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luatex cannot find font metric data
After installing TeX Live 2012 in a non system directory (not sure if this makes a difference) and running some of the tests found at TeX Live Install, LuaTeX can't find the example font metrics even ...
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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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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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1answer
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Use TeX Gyre fonts with latex+dvips+ps2pdf
I want to use the TeX Gyre fonts (especially the Pagella and Pagella Math) with LaTeX+dvips+ps2pdf. In the future I want to use this for PSTricks but first I've to solve my font problems.
I use this ...
4
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Problem with font in theorem environment
I use LuaLaTeX, fontspec and XITS maths font. Additionally, I had a problem with theorem environment and long headers so I based my solution on this. My problem is that I now get a different font for ...
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How to use OpenType fonts with plain-LuaTeX?
Is it possible to have OpenType fonts with LuaTeX using the plain format?
I have tried:
\font\test="texgyrepagellaregular"\test test\bye
but I get ! Font \test=texgyrepagellaregular not loadable: ...
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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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8
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317 views
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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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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9
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1answer
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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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Biolinum font bold 11pt issue in tableofcontents [closed]
I found an issue in adopting the Biolinum
font, bold face at 11pt, in the
tableofcontents. At 10pt or 12pt it works just fine, indeed. But I need to use 11pt.
Compiled indifferently under LuaLaTeX ...
14
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1answer
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LuaLaTeX: use or don't use classical font packages?
In the lualatex-doc I am reading under "switching from LaTeX to LuaLaTeX":
Don’t load inputenc, just encode your source in UTF-8.
Don’t load fontenc, but load fontspec.
Don’t use any package that ...
9
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2answers
234 views
Create a font table for all available characters for a particular font
Similar to the question:
Lualatex: Font table with examples
I have several ornamental fonts and I'd like to create key maps. That is, I want to know what symbol the letter a maps to by having a nice ...
6
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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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7
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1answer
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Trying to use FreeSerif as a maths font — what am I doing wrong?
Always in search of the ideal font combination unicorn, I thought I'd try the GNU Free UCS Outline Fonts (FreeSerif, FreeSans, and FreeMono). I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle:
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MonTeX (mls, manju, mongolian) with Latin script with diacritics
I am using the montex package to type text in Manchu (manju). In my documents, I also use Latin script with diacritics. When I load montex, these diacritics no longer appear, and when characters with ...
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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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Conflict between microtype, LuaLaTeX, and otf fonts when typesetting material in small-caps
I'm using the microtype package (microtype beta 2.5 build 08) to modify my document and I'd like to retain its functionality across all font shapes with the exception of small-caps (\scshape). How do ...
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Footnote mark alignment with italic text [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
superscripts with xelatex? (footnotes, natbib)
I'm adding a footnote to a sentence that is italicized, and the placement of the footnote mark seemed to be off. I'm ...
5
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3answers
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Changing numbers font features while changing shape
I am writing a document with the main font set up with old numbers, but I would like to have the "normal" style in the tables. This works but one particular table has some of the numbers in italic and ...
5
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System-wide feature file in lualatex
I have a font (Dolly) with f_i and f_l ligatures, which requires a feature file to make them work. Everything works fine using the following:
# dolly.fea
languagesystem DFLT dflt;
languagesystem ...
5
votes
2answers
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XeTeX and Luatex fail to display correctly biblical hebrew fonts
My question is related to both XeTeX and LuaTeX; both fail to display correctly biblical hebrew fonts.
More precisely, the text is truncated at some point, and the nikud (meaning something like ...
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1answer
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How to generate compounded diacritical fonts for Sanskrit with XeTeX and LuaTeX?
I'm trying to use diacritical marks for Sanskrit with a font that does not natively support all the marks (Minion Pro). So they are compounded somehow by XeTeX. This works almost fine in using:
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Bar plots in sans serif font
I want to typeset my bar plots with a sans serif font (using LuaTeX). I tried many options that I found searching the manual and the internet. None of them solved my problem---using different fonts ...
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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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1answer
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How to find out which glyphs are different in an OpenType style set?
With fontspec, and XeTeX or LuaTeX it's possible to access a font's OpenType features, including the Style Sets, e.g. like this:
\addfontfeatures{RawFeature=+ss01;+ss18}
TeX.sx has already taught ...
26
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Why does it take LuaLaTeX so long to load fonts and can I speed it up?
To test Mico's upcoming selnolig package, I tried out LuaLaTeX. While the overall experience for me as a pdfLaTeX end-user was very similar, I noticed that LuaLaTeX takes a long time to load fonts. ...
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1answer
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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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0answers
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fonts and lualatex [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I use a particular font for a small section of text in my document?
I am begining with LuaLaTeX and I have some basic questions.
First of all how can I change ...
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Linux Libertine: Change Numeral Set
I am using the Linux Libertine font for my document. The font provides different numeral sets, "normal" numbers which are all the same height, and medieval/minuscle numbers with varying height.
By ...
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LuaLaTeX works only after LaTeX did [closed]
The problem that I experienced is when I compile this MWE+:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{simpsons}
\begin{document}
\Bart Use \TeX, dude!
\end{document}
If I compiled it with LuaLaTex after ...
3
votes
1answer
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Does lualatex embed fonts for compatibility?
I am using fonts installed on my computer in LaTeX document as
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\fontx{Ubuntu}
\begin{document}
The default font
{\fontx New font}
The ...
2
votes
1answer
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LuaTeX cannot find existing font
My Fedora 17 LuaLaTeX (2012) system just keeps complaining about some particular (of course existing) font not existing. It can't spit out any PDF from a TeX file using that font. This is the error I ...
10
votes
1answer
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How do I combine fonts for different scripts?
I want to combine Helvetica World (for roman, cyrillic, greek and arabic) and Hei Std (for simplified chinese) in one document with LuaLaTeX. Hei Std probably hasn't all the glyphs from Helvetica ...
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How to set a small linespace even with a very big letter in the text
I use a font (Aquiline), that has only a few characters, most notably the letter "A", which are quite huge in height.
I use LuaLaTex with the fontspec package.
So if I use this font and a capital A ...
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Suppress certain ligatures generally
Whether or not certain ligatures should be used (if available in a font) is a least in theory depending on the language used. For example traditional German texts would not have an "ffl" ligature but ...
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1answer
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When using more than 16 math alphabets, \mathtt uses italic font
I know that in TeX, you can only use 16 math alphabets but XeTeX extends this so I was curious to enlarge the number of my math alphabets and I had to redefine some internals of LaTeX. Here is my ...
3
votes
1answer
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combine two sans fonts for xelatex/lualatex
I'm still finding my way around latex, so forgive me is this is an obvious question...
I have two sans serif ttf fonts available at my workplace that I want to use in xelatex or lualatex. The serif ...
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3answers
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Embedding Type 1C fonts using LuaLaTeX
As pointed out in the answer to PDF file size with LuaLaTeX vs XeLaTeX, the difference between using Type 1 and Type 1C fonts in two documents made a big difference in file size.
File size is ...
3
votes
2answers
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Linux Libertine Biolinum xelatex and lualatex
This is actually two questions rolled into one. Consider the example file below:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
%
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7
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2answers
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Linux Biolinum O messes up moderncv Package
Take the template.tex example file from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/examples and add these two lines:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O}
Then run ...
8
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1answer
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TeX logo with LuaTeX and Linux Biolinum O/G
Something is wrong with TeX and LaTeX logos with the font Linux Biolinum O under LuaTeX. I am using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows. Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass{minimal}
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6
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2answers
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luaotfload can’t find fonts
I am using MiKTeX 2.9 on Windows. luaotfload does not find the fonts located in the MiKTeX-maintained root directory (which is C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\ on my system) and I am therefore ...
10
votes
1answer
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Lualatex and Syriac (initial, middle and final letters)
I have heard that it is possible to typeset Arabic texts with Lualatex, so I assume that it is also possible to typeset Syriac texts with LuaLatex. But when I run the following example, the output is ...
