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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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Lao, Vowels, XeLaTeX, fontspec
Can anyone see an error here?
I'm using \newfontfamily{\L}[Script=Lao]{Lao Sangam MN} to switch to Lao, then using \L{ວຽງຈັນ}, but getting ວຽງຈ ັນ in the PDF. No luck in other fonts (all ...
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How to include both English and Telugu content in Latex where the majority of the content is English?
I am trying to use polyglossia and fontspec.
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Pothana2000}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{telugu}
\begin{document}
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Cyrillic monospaced font in XeLaTeX
I've installed full TexLive 2011 using "install-tl" script in Ubuntu 12.04. When I was using TexLive 2009 from repositories the following file was compiled without any errors.
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xelatex stopped working after TexLive2011 update 2 days ago
I updated Tex Live 2011 a couple of days ago and I can't run XeLaTeX anymore on a document I was working on. When it runs it gets stuck and I have to abort it. Resulting in the following error. I've ...
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XeLaTeX with Polyglossia and Thai
The following example displays the English text alright, but not the Thai text. It is simply left blank in the PDF result.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
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4
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XeLaTeX with polyglossia and Greek
I'm struggling a lot with XeLaTeX and polyglossia. Somehow the font selection doesn't seem to work as I would expect it (and as the error messages suggest).
Please consider the following example:
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Polyglossia and fontspec's script feature.
Hi I have a question regarding the combination of polyglossia and fontspec
I have written the folllowing:
\documentclass[oneside, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Script=greek, ...
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votes
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Using \texttt with polyglossia Hebrew.
Here is a minimal example, which shows that \texttt fails in the said circumstances. I tried reading fontspec documentation, but was overwhelmed by the quantity of the material, and the fix I tried ...
