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How is possible to set interline inside this block of code?
Have this code that generate an aside section:
\RequirePackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}
\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1cm}
\setlength{\TPVertModule}{1cm}
\newenvironment{aside}{%
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2
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1answer
117 views
Interword Spacing in XeTeX is not functioning (Fontdimen)
in Default Lyx PDF output, (I presumed it is pdflatex), I used fontdimen2/3/4 to control the interword space, stretch and shrink. In a project, I had to use XeTeX for a particular font. However, the ...
4
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2answers
770 views
underfull vbox (badness 10000) with memoir
Sorry if this question has been asked very often, but I can't easily find an answer to my specific question.
I am using XeLaTeX and the memoir class to produce a rather long document (100 pages) with ...
9
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2answers
336 views
How can I get my ellipses formatted correctly in XeTeX?
I've been using \dots and \ldots to try to get ellipses happening.
Ellipses should look like this: Some text . . . and then some more text.
But instead they look like this: Some text ...and some ...
5
votes
1answer
945 views
Invisible character equal to the height of capital letters [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I create an invisible character?
How can I insert an invisible character (similar to \strut) which has a width of zero (won't impact word or letter spacing) and ...
9
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4answers
953 views
Displaying pinyin over Chinese characters, without impacting word spacing
I want to display pinyin (romanized form) over Chinese characters. However, the two methods I know (using stackrel or tabular both change the spacing between characters. This demonstrates the problem:
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6
votes
1answer
145 views
Temporarily changing the spacing between Chinese text and numerals
When mixing Chinese text and non-math mode numbers together within a sentence, narrow numbers are given the same amount of space as characters:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ctexcap}
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4
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1answer
135 views
How do I create a table that meets the following specifications?
Following this question: I want to create an environment for a table with the following specifications:
The left column is a vertically centered rotated text, saying Övning. The right column contains ...
4
votes
1answer
305 views
Table paragraph spacing
In the preamble of my document, I'm using \usepackage[parfill]{parskip} to make a new line between each paragraph. But when I try to write paragraphs inside a table:
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3
votes
2answers
453 views
Math mode spacing (or glyph bounds) with mathspec
With mathspec, when you change the math font to an OpenType font, the spacing within equations is not fine: it is the same than the text mode spacing. For example in the equation $e^j$, the 'j' will ...
4
votes
1answer
2k views
Make an invisible vbox
I'm placing a PDF meta information in a \vbox in a plain XeTeX document, and I would like it to behave as if there were no box at all (so any additional \vskip after the \vbox will appear). Right now, ...
2
votes
4answers
749 views
Dynamic stretching of text
For the needs of a running title (in header), I would like the text of a running title (in header) to be stretched over the page. So far, I stretch it manually (using LetterSpace and WordSpace in ...
1
vote
1answer
156 views
weird spacing with \, and and babel
When using XeLaTeX and babel "francais", I sometimes get weird spacing: e.g. \, makes a wider space than the regular space (see what happens on the second line here).
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4
votes
1answer
301 views
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 ...
6
votes
1answer
388 views
Suppress space between Chinese and Roman typeface in XeLaTeX
When the Roman characters [a-z0-9] and Chinese characters alternate in XeLaTeX, a space is automatically entered between the two types of character. For example, both Abcde我fg and Abcde 我 fg produce:
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3
votes
2answers
872 views
Space after closing double quotes in XeLaTeX
I'm writing some non-technical text that I'm trying to typeset using XeLaTeX. For simplicity, I'm keeping the actual text in plain text files which after certain modifications (e.g. escaping %, \ and ...
2
votes
2answers
671 views
Stretch space characters horizontally
I'm using XeTeX to mimic another document, but I only have a similar font which I stretch using the extend and letterspace options.
My main problem is though, that my font's spaces (U+0020) are only ...
11
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3answers
3k views
Exact font size and leading
I read couple of suggestions about setting exact font size and leading in LaTeX and XeLaTeX, so my question is, simply put, the following: is it the correct way to use LaTeX's method to XeLaTeX too, ...
