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xstring substitution with font commands fails in error
I want to substitute some spaces with normal font \dots in between name parts typeset in \ttfamily.
Below example works except for the commented part which fails miserably with the error: TeX ...
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Substitute all 'A' with \textsc{a}
Can I use catcode to substitute all capital letters in my document to \textsc{\myletter}?
EDIT: I would like to make this by a function, like:
\thisismystring{BLABLABLA}, that converts into ...
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Replace asterisk with nothing in string
I have a function which grabs cells out of a table and returns them. Many of these cells end with two asterisks, and I would not like these returned from the function if they are present. For ...
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How to replace specific words with an underscore equal in length to the original word replaced in ConTeXt?
My problem is identical to Phantom and line break, however, I am using ConTeXt.
I am creating a cloze test, e.g.:
Frogs have four ____ and two eyes.
The original text in the source appears like ...
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Glyph substitution: alternate capital Q in URW-Garamond? (LaTeX, Mac OS X)
I am using URW Garamond in LaTeX running on Mac OS X. The capital Q has a very long swash (extending beyond the next two glyphs!), which makes it unusable for me (I have too many capital Q's in my ...
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changing font of one (or a small number of) text character only [duplicate]
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Font substitution with XeLaTeX
I am using a text font that unfortunately does not have accents for the letter e, which I need. But I have found a very similar font, and ...
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Font substitution with XeLaTeX
I have an automatically generated document (using Doxygen) that has
many different Unicode characters for many languages: Hebrew, Japanese, Greek, Arabic and more.
Some parts of text displayed using ...
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Substitute font's glyphs with glyphs from the same font
Is it possible to substitute certain font's glyphs with other glyphs from the same font? I am using Xelatex and Fontspec.
More specifically, I am using small caps with Linux Libertine O C and the ...
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Search and replace in a verbatim token list
I maintain a package for the R programming language that contains a vignette which gets processed using the Sweave literate programming system. Now, one of the irks about Sweave is that it always ...
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Replacing a substring
I've got a string like this: aXYbXYc, and need to replace the XY substring with a right arrow: a $\to$ b $\to$ c.
Is there any function (also provided by external packages) to help me do that?
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Recommendations for substitution of non-free fonts with LaTeX typefaces?
I'm trying to create a LaTeX template for reports we use in our organization. The original template is in .doc format, and uses a few non-free fonts, specifically Gill Sans. I'm looking for a LaTeX ...
