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What primitives can expandably tell us about the current horizontal list?
I've been writing some code that expands macros and catches characters and non-expandable primitives as they reach TeX's stomach, and I encountered an issue: since I gather letters one by one, with ...
8
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\setbox containing maths interferes with surrounding math mode in XeTeX
I encountered what might be a bug in XeTeX (but I would be glad to be proven wrong) while chasing a strange interaction between bytefield, unicode-math, and mathtools.
In general, I do not expect a ...
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What are lccode and uccode used for?
In TeX, each of the 256 bytes has an associated \lccode and an \uccode, integers in the range [0,255] which indicate among other things how \lowercase and \uppercase act. There are of course a bunch ...
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votes
0answers
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font loading via URL for all TeX-en
Firstly, I'm not asking about typesetting URLs. What I am talking about is font resolution via a URL reference. My limited experience is in using XeLaTeX so I'll couch the question accordingly. If you ...
9
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287 views
Computer Modern font with accented characters (in XeTeX)
I'd like to use Knuth's Computer Modern font with XeTeX (not with XeLaTeX and so not with a LaTeX package) in a way where I don't have to type accents in a \'-way and without any gimmick such as ...
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Starting with TeX (not LaTeX)
I've been using LaTeX for 3 years and I'm decided to switch to (plain) TeX. For the moment I'm reading The TeXbook for the third time (I quietly start to read the double-danger signed paragraphs) and ...
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XeLaTeX, Modern Latin and cyrilic
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}
\setsansfont{Latin Modern Sans}
\setmonofont{Latin Modern Mono}
...
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vote
1answer
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Unexpected scoping issue using \XeTeXinterchartoks
Minimal example (compile with xetex):
\XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1
\newXeTeXintercharclass \classa
\XeTeXcharclass `\a \classa
\XeTeXinterchartoks 255 \classa = {\begingroup}
\XeTeXinterchartoks ...
5
votes
1answer
203 views
XeLaTeX exit codes
I'm running XeLaTeX from a shell script and would like to check for exit codes, to see if an error was encountered during processing.
So I'm looking for a list of possible exit codes. I've checked ...
9
votes
2answers
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Do XeTeX and LuaTeX always use Unicode?
I am writing some functions to manipulate strings. A typical way to produce a character with a given character code is the \lowercase primitive. The following code produces a character with code 234, ...
5
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3answers
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How best to run through a series of elements {a,1,i}, {b,2,ii}, etc
I am rewriting a package I wrote for XeLaTeX to handle unicode blocks. This means dealing with setting up character classes for all characters from block "BlockName" starting at codepoint 1234 and ...
4
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1answer
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Why doesn't math \fontdimen's work with XeTeX?
Why doesn't the \fontdimen-command change anything with XeTeX?
\input pgffor
\def\chfndims#1{\foreach\dim in{13,...,19}{\fontdimen\dim#1=20pt}}
\font\mymathfn="XITS Math:script=math" at 10pt ...
