LuaTeX is a Unicode-capable extension of TeX which integrates the scripting language Lua. Use this tag if your question is about LuaTeX or LuaLaTeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX. For ConTeXt related questions use {context-mkiv}.
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The Last Obstacle — Measuring sidebearings in LuaLaTeX
I've just realised that this question might be interpreted as a duplicate of Accessing side-bearings in LuaTeX, and therefore eligible to be closed as such. Apologies for the lapse of memory; I'll ...
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LuaLaTeX + fontspec: cannot compare documents with Acrobat
I use the option "compare documents" in Adobe Acrobat Pro a lot to highlight changes between revisions. What I just noticed is, if I compile a simple document such as the one below with LuaLaTeX + ...
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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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Editing LuaLaTeX files in emacs
(A follow-up question to Which is the best editor for LuaTeX?)
Emacs offers the LaTeX-mode in AUCTeX for editing LaTeX files, while it has the Lua-mode for editing Lua-files.
Consider the following ...
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Speeding up compilation using precompiled preamble with LuaTeX
Compiling my documents with lualatex takes quite long. I have a complex preamble, and noticed it takes long to process this part of the file.
Today I came across this website, which proposes a trick ...
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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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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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Contextual Substitution with LuaLateX
Contextual substition doesn't seem to work with LuaLateX, while it works fine with XeLateX. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
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What are current pitfalls of using LuaTeX over pdfTeX
I know that there are several closely related older posts about LuaTeX.
Using LuaTeX as a replecment for pdfTeX 3
LuaLaTeX and PSTricks
Migrating from pdfTeX to LuaTeX
As of recently I started ...
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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 ...
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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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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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latest updates to lua* break … something
So, now, after most recent (23 Apr) updates (I'm using MiKTeX 2.9) to various things related to lualatex, I noticed that compilation of anything takes twice as long as it did (say) 10 minutes ago ...
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copy&paste: diacritics and special characters
Why can't I correctly copy&paste from my pdf documents (created by LuaLaTeX)? E.g., I get Faḫr al-Din̄ al-Rāzī instead of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
Surprisingly, most other things (including Arabic ...
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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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Can epdf change pdf?
I want to edit PDF using the epdf library included in LuaTeX (add, bleed/crop/trim box). I can get current trim size of the PDF (if it's set) via epdf PDFRectangle. But I didn't find defined methods ...
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LuaLaTeX and PSTricks
Is there the possibility to produce PSTricks graphics in LuaLaTeX?
I tried it, but i get
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \c@lor@to@ps
l.9 \psline(
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bidi's undefined environments in (my) LuaLaTeX system
I typeset Arabic text with LuaLaTeX. I am using the following definitions and it works nicely:
\newcommand{\arabtext}[1] % Arabic inside LTR
{\bgroup\luatextextdir TRT\arabicfont #1\egroup}
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Conflict between luatex-ja and fontspec
I am using LuaLaTeX to write my thesis, because LuaLaTeX has better compatibility. However, now I found that there seems to be conflict between the package luatex-ja (which provides neccessary CJK ...
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Sawasdee Font in Beamer Poster
I'm trying to use the "Sawasdee" font in a beamer poster (installed as a TrueType font from fonts-tlwg-sawasdee ubuntu package). I can activate it in a regular (scractl) document by using ...
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Typesetting a bilingual English-Hebrew book with facing pages in each language
How would one go about setting, say, a bilingual novel with the English translation on the left side of the book binding (the verso) and the original Hebrew text on the right side of the book (the ...
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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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How get white space in line (lualatex)
What I can get whitespace in one line in paragraph.
I make a paragraph, after this I get how long is whitespace (the difference between the characters and the width of the paragraph), and next I ...
