XeTeX is a Unicode-capable variant of the TeX engine. Use this tag if your question is about Xe(La)TeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX.
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Problem with xepersian ver 2.8 [duplicate]
when I update xepersian package to ver 2.8, and use XeLaTeX compiler for the following code:
\documentclass[11pt,b5paper]{book}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\begin{document}
$m$
\end{document}
then I ...
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XeLaTeX problem? Undefined control sequence.
I'm new to LaTeX.
I downloaded a template for making a CV.
here
It says to be compiled with biber and XeLaTeX
Im trying with xelatex vc_10.tex but always getting errors, fixed them by searching ...
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How do I get Libertine + Libertine in math mode + historical ligatures + french-style?
I would like to write a document using:
Libertine;
Libertine in a correct math mode;
Historical ligatures;
French style of mathematics (upright greek letters and capital letters).
I know I should ...
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Attribution to authors and projects in the final document?
Is it considered good practice to give attribution to authors or projects that have produced the different TeX-systems, document classes etc, in the final typeset document?
Specific example: I have ...
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How do I use kpfonts with fontspec?
Is there a way to use kpfonts with fontspec ?
The math font is correctly used but just loading the kpfonts package is not enough for the text. If I add the \setmainfont line (see example) the kp font ...
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Why do some fonts work and others don't in LaTeX?
I use the Helvetica font and everything is OK, but if I try to use Garamond for instance then I run into problems... and I cannot compile (or the pdf tells me that it cannot retrieve the fonts, when I ...
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How to optimize Latin Modern font with XeLaTex
I need to create a xelatex document with many fonts.
I will use many fonts cuz my documents talk about fonts.
But I want to use Latin Modern as main font.
So I downloaded and installed ALL the open ...
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Proper way to use LaTeX fonts in XeLaTeX
What is the proper way to use LaTeX fonts, for example calligra or other fonts from the Font Catalogue in XeLaTeX.
Something like
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{Calligra}
doesn't work. ...
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How to use biblatex-gost with XeLaTeX?
I'm trying to make use of biblatex-gost package with XeLaTeX -- but it gives error:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec} % enagles loading of OpenType fonts
\usepackage{polyglossia} % ...
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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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How to add cyrillic text to tikz image?
I tried the following:
\documentclass[landscape]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds, shapes, arrows}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node at (10pt, 50pt) {Й};
...
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Upright greeks in Asana-math?
I'm using
XeTeX,
unicode-math with
Asana-math.otf
and required to make all greek letters in math -- upright. Asana-math seem to have upright greek letters:
(on the contrary I can't find italic ...
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xelatex myriad pro l with apostrophe issue
I compile my document with xelatex.
I use Myriad pro
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Myriad Pro}
My problem is that the "l'a" is looking OK but not the "l'i" the i touches the apostrophes. Can ...
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Tufte running headers not using full width of page
I use Minion Pro and XeLaTeX together with the tufte class. There is an issue with caps in headers (as can be noticed if removing the two line marked %% headings fixes below). My fix is to use the ...
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XeLaTeX / XeTeX — fontspec and ornaments/dingbats [duplicate]
I would like to know if it is possible to use the ornaments contained in a font like Minion Pro from Adobe. I'm using XeLaTeX and fontspec (or mathspec), but I don't find information on ornaments in ...
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Trying to use biblatex-historian with a BibTeX backend and XeLaTeX
I'm currently working with a large bibliography that I've assembled for my PhD studies that I've edited in several different programs (KBibTeX, JabRef, and ebib from emacs primarily) and that was ...
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Ferial class option of evweek does not work with fontspec
I am trying to produce a two page weekly calendar using package evweek with the class option ferial.
The following file works fine:
\documentclass[a4paper,ferial]{evweek}
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Create pdf with subset of slides
I use knitr and RStudio with XeLaTeX to create a presentation with many slides. But sometimes not all of the slides should appear in the final pdf. Is it possible to have a variable that I change ...
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Unable to find TFM file
I use TeXLive 2011 (installed with ISO) in Ubuntu. When I use the package bbding, it shows
** ERROR ** Unable to find TFM file bbding10
and I use the command locate bbding10.tfm
that returns:
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Cannot compile tabu
I have been trying to compile the following tabu environment with xelatex, but to no avail:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabu}
\begin{document}
\taburowcolors ...
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Conflict between ifxetex and ucs under pdflatex/xelatex - why?
I use TexLive 2012 (on Mac) and the following minimal example does not work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifxetex}
\usepackage[mathletters]{ucs} % Need newline here!
\ifxetex
\else
\fi
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Old Korean han'gŭl in XeLaTeX?
Does anybody know if it's possible to typeset old han'gŭl (Korean alphabet) in XeLaTeX?
I'm referring to these letters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hangul
It is not possible to type outright ...
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pstricks and admin rights
I am using MiKTeX 2.9 on an XP account with restricted user rights. Unfortunately I was not able to compile a file under xelatex which included pstricks graphics, so I tried everything that I found on ...
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Replace all standard LaTeX fonts with [arbitrary fonts] for journal submission
A physics journal I'm submitting to requests that image files not contain any non-standard fonts. Standard fonts, as far as they are concerned, are: Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Times-Bold, ...
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Creating my own font map for use with XeLaTeX [duplicate]
I want to create my own font map for use with XeLaTeX. What I want to do is what Natror is doing with the medial long S in his answer to this question:
Trouble with contextuals in LuaLaTeX with ...
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Xelatex beamer Calibri: how to suppress unwanted ligatures [duplicate]
Solution:
\setsansfont[Ligatures={NoRequired,NoCommon,NoContextual}]{Calibri}
I'm no typographer, therefore I didn't know the techinical terms, but this Wikipedia article describes it: ...
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Adobe Garamond Pro (otf) with mathdesign
I would like to use the Adobe Garamond Pro (otf) font with mathdesign. The readme of the package says:
The following commercial families are also supported:
mdpga family corresponds to ...
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Glossaries, polyglossia, xindy, naiive and ï
I'm getting error:
ERROR: READ: comma is illegal outside of backquote
when executing: polyglossia together with \"{\i}
placed in the name field of newglossaryentry
Also, it seems to have something ...
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XeLaTex: — sign
I use following code:
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}[]{llcl}
\hline
\rowcolor[gray]{.9}\textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Description} \\\hline
-c, --create & Do something\\\hline
\end{tabular}
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XeTex on ubuntu
I got an error
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/base/themes/o/beamerouterthemedefault.st
y))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
!
...
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Change the way XeTeX sees a string before running/building PDF
For some reason, I'm really struggling to articulate my question, so let me apologise in advance. I may not be approaching this from the right angle.
I'm working in XeTeX (and it's far too late to ...
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How I put \sqrt in arial with unicode-math?
I need to write an document with Arial. And have some math.
I almost do this in entire document with this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathspec}
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“Interactive PDF, Latex and Article of the Future” with opentype/truetype fonts and unicode
I'm looking for a way to get popup references when hovering with the mouse cursor over the references in my papers. I looked around on this forum and found this question and hpesoj626's answer very ...
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Font not found by XeLaTeX
Hi LaTeX gurus out there.
I understand that you could use XeLaTeX to use any system font. Well, recently I downloaded a LaTeX template for a CV from http://www.latextemplates.com
The template uses ...
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titlesec titlemarks not working with pdfcolparallel
As you can see from the screenshot the numbers showing the verse locations in the titlemarks only show the very last values which were set. If you comment out the line \usepackage{pdfcolparallel} and ...
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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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Link to and attached/embedded file?
I'm using XeTeX and I'd like to have a link to an attached/embedded file.
There's a solution here -- but it doesn't work for me: I'm using TeXlive2012.
As I understand it the best bet is to use ...
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Changing the Greek math font with mathspec
I've recently changed from pdftex to xetex to be able to write documents in Bembo Std but I'm not quite there yet. While trying to typeset some notes from one of my classes, I tried to typeset Greek ...
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Does XeLaTeX automatically select optical sizes for a given font, if available?
I've been intrigued by a great feature of XeLaTeX (perhaps it was already a feature of (La)TeX) for a long time -- its ability to automatically select the appropriate optical size of a font for a ...
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Localise appendix numbering?
I'm using XeLaTeX with fontspec. I write Russian document and get appendix numbered with latin letters:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec} % enables loading of {True/Open}Type fonts
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Vertical Chinese text that contains characters in a “CJK fallback family font”
I am having trouble with vertical (i.e. rotated) Chinese text that contains characters in two different fonts. Rare characters requiring the "CJK fallback family font" are not displaying in the ...
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question about pgf-blur package in xelatex
Here is my code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows.blur}
\begin{document}
\tikzfading[name=fade down,
top color=transparent!30,
bottom ...
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How do I create a visually pleasing tree hierarchy from a difficult to read CSV File (MySQL Export)?
Ok here is the deal: I am working on an endangered language project. The data is contained in a MySQL database. I can run a query to produce a hierarchy, but the hierarchy is difficult for humans to ...
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Set minimum math font size
Example:
\begin{equation}
\begin{array}{ll}
\textrm{stejne rozptyly:} & U = \frac{ \bar{x}_1 - \bar{x}_2 }{ s \sqrt{ \frac{1}{n_1} + \frac{1}{n_2} } } \\
\textrm{ruzne ...
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\pdfglyphtounicode with XeTeX
One well known problem with using the font Linux Libertine (presumably other fonts too), is that its many ligatures are not recognized in the resulting pdf-file, so that it's not possible to search ...
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Syriac Abbreviation Mark
I'm trying to implement in XeLaTeX the Syriac Abbreviation Mark (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Abbreviation_Mark).
The code I came up with is the following:
\catcode`^^^^070f=13
...
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fail to add Chinese punctuation after CJKnumber in chatper title in xeLaTeX
I'm writing my thesis in Chinese with xeLaTeX and I've to format the chapter name and section name.
The following command works ok:
\usepackage[CJKnumber][xeCJK]
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Russian language within figure captions in unicode-aware systems [duplicate]
When I try to compile the following document caption package seem to convert caption text to \cyr.. sequences and fontspec don't understand them. Is it possible do somehow get around that without ...
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Smart replacement of missing fonts
The Open Sans Condensed fonts only have Bold and not Bold italic, so when I use
\setmainfont{Open Sans Condensed Bold}
and then try to use \textit{Foo}, it doesn't render it in italic, since there ...
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XeLaTeX hang on Defining document command \newfontfeature with arg. spec. 'mm' on line 118
I am using TexMaker 4.0 on a Windows 7 (64bit) machine, with MiKTeX v2.9, and I am trying to compile this template (with no modifications) with XeLaTeX using the instructions contained in the first ...
