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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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1
vote
1answer
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! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:äöü not set up for use with Latex — is my latex broken [duplicate]
When trying to compile the following document with xelatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\begin{document}
äöüÄÖÜ
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0answers
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Latex textfield unicode problem and Xelatex hyperref textfield not working in tabular section
I've tried to add russian letters in textfield, but it gives:
T2ACYRI T2Acyrm T2Acyrya
Then I used xelatex but generated forms are not working. What to do?
And this form works without tabular. ...
12
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3answers
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How can I access a specific glyph in LuaLaTeX/Fontspec?
The OTF version of Minion Pro contains several Dingbats glyphs I would like to access. Some of them are not unicode, so I can not just copy the specific unicode character I want to access into my text ...
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0answers
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MonTeX (mls, manju, mongolian) with Latin script with diacritics
I am using the montex package to type text in Manchu (manju). In my documents, I also use Latin script with diacritics. When I load montex, these diacritics no longer appear, and when characters with ...
7
votes
1answer
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Emoji Characters
I'm trying to display Emoji Characters inside my XeLaTeX Document.
It seems to work for some glyphs like the numbers and pound sign but not for all.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
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2
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0answers
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Support for all writing systems in a single document — more than just one or two Unicode planes simultaneously
I am working on a document that contains a growing number of representatives from different writing systems. It is mostly an English document, and I have been using the following to ensure that CJK ...
1
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1answer
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Indic special characters on XeLaTeX
I am using XeLaTeX (XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 on TeX Live 2012/W32TeX). There are some special Indic unicode characters which XeLaTeX does not seem to support. I am trying to produce ...
4
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2answers
267 views
Unicode characters changing order in listings (XeTeX)
I am trying to input code listings with unicode characters and everything seems to work (more or less) except some unicode characters being displayed out of order. For example instead of
służąca ...
4
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2answers
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Modifying another checkmark, or adding another one?
I should explain beforehand, that I use XeLaTeX, so I have access to all kinds of fonts, and Unicode support.
Now, I'm using the "BALLOT BOX" (U+2610) and "BALLOT BOX WITH CHECK" (U+2611) quite often ...
4
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utf8 math characters from source code file with minted in XeLaTeX
I want XeLaTeX/minted to display all my mathematical characters from my .java source file.
More detailed: I file my programming homework in PDF documents in my university. I have been using LaTeX and ...
8
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2answers
282 views
How to get devanagari numerals in latex or xetex
How to get devanagari numerals in xetex or latex - especially in enumerate environment?
I can use unicode to write devanagari text but I am unable to get devenagari numerals in section numbers, ...
6
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3answers
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Why does xelatex need fontspec to output non-ASCII characters?
I thought the point of XeTeX was to allow Unicode to work out of the box (in addition to leveraging system fonts). So how come the following does not output anything unless I use the fontspec package?
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6
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1answer
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Computer Modern in XeLaTeX
I love XeLaTeX for things like
$a≠b$ ⇔ $ a⊧a↑Ω$
All days before I used DejaVu fonts and Asana-Math for unicode-math.
But today I have to get visual compability with LaTeX. So I installed Computer ...
9
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3answers
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Diereses (German Umlauts) in math?
Is it possible to enter Umlauts directly in math?
I would like to do something like the following (using XeLaTex):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[silent,no-math]{fontspec}
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0
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0answers
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Curly end-quote (”) not working in xetex? [closed]
I'm using xetex with unicode quotes (“ and ”), along with the mla.sty style for MLA papers. The opening quotation mark works (“) but not the ending (”). I can't figure out whether this is because of ...
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'Not element of' in Latin Modern
In the following example, the ∉ symbol does not look good.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}
\setmathfont{Latin Modern Math}
\begin{document}
This ...
12
votes
1answer
190 views
Remapping LaTeX symbol to another unicode value
When compiling the following piece of LaTeX code, the ∖ symbol does not show up.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}
\setmathfont{Latin Modern Math}
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14
votes
2answers
585 views
How to insert Greek letters directly in math environment?
Why are non-Latin characters not displayed in formulas, even when using XeLaTeX?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\begin{document}
$\omega$ %displyed
$ω$ %not displyed
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4
votes
1answer
391 views
Using another font for a glyph that is not available in the current font
I want to declare more than one font so XeTeX can use other fonts when first font did not have a specific glyph. How can I do that? In windows when the current font does not have a glyph, other font ...
0
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0answers
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Croatian characters not printing in xelatex/biblatex-biber [closed]
The following minimal example omits the Croatian accented z/c from the author name in the compiled PDF.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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6
votes
1answer
684 views
Unicode characters not displaying in XeTeX
I am trying to get Unicode characters to compile into a PDF file using XeLaTeX. My MWE looks like this:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Here is α, β, and finally γ.
\end{document}
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6
votes
2answers
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Unicode in XeTeX with automatic font substitution?
I've got a word processor (WordGrinder) which supports Unicode. It can export LaTeX files, which then get run through XeTeX.
Unfortunately, it seems that while XeTeX understands the Unicode ...
5
votes
2answers
205 views
Finding and displaying UTF-8 characters with xesearch
The xesearch package allows one to replace text with other text. E.g.:
\documentclass{ctexbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xesearch}
\SearchList{list1}{newspaper}{book}
\begin{document}
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6
votes
1answer
783 views
Getting (Xe)LaTeX to display accents and characters not included with the font
The font I'm using (Adobe Garamond Premier Pro) does have certain precomposed glyphs with diacritics, so I'm having (Xe)LaTeX add them in. I found this post and used the method described there for ...
16
votes
3answers
920 views
Using unicode Roman numerals in XeTeX
As mentioned in How can I get Roman numerals in text?, there are several ways in which one can add Roman numerals to text in TeX. However, these solutions all seem to use three I's to make a roman ...
9
votes
2answers
506 views
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, ...
3
votes
2answers
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Unicode “undefined control sequence” in XeLaTeX
I have got a TeXLive 2011 on an Apple Time Machine and TeXShop on my local MacBook.
When I try to typeset the XeLaTeX template from TeXShop, I get “undefined control sequence” for some of the Unicode ...
3
votes
2answers
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Half Brackets Not Showing in XeLaTeX
I have a XeLaTeX document with lower half brackets ⸤⸥ (U+2E24,U+2E25) and upper half brackets ⸢⸣ (U+2E22,U+2E23). In the log file I get the complaint like Missing character: There is no ⸤ in font... ...
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How to use xindy with XeTeX/LuaTeX?
According to Xindy revisited: Multi-lingual index creation for the UTF-8 age (TUGboat), “if one has a raw index file that was produced by [XeTeX], one can use xindy; it will ‘just work’.”
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6
votes
2answers
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The 'listings' package and UTF-8
Please, do you know if there's any possibility how to use the listings package together with XeLaTeX? I have to use XelaTeX and therefore I have UTF-8 encoded files. This is not compatible with ...
7
votes
1answer
589 views
Plain text for cut and pasting, ligatures for viewing (or, disabling ligatures)
One reason I switched to Xelatex was that I was interested in being able to create fully unicode documents (I'm a linguist, and often have linguistic symbols as well as Arabic text in my documents) ...
3
votes
3answers
570 views
mathaccent skewchar with XeTeX
How can I get the dots in the correct position:
\font\test="XITS Math:script=math;mapping=italic" \skewchar\test=127
\XeTeXmathchardef\beta="0"1`β
\def\ddot{\XeTeXmathaccent"7"1"0308}
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6
votes
2answers
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Change XeTeX fonts automatically depending on Unicode blocks
I would like to move from p(La)TeX (which was a TeX system specifically tailored to Japanese in a pre-Unicode era) to Xe(La)TeX, and I'm having a problem.
In p(La)TeX, Japanese fonts are only used ...
10
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2answers
552 views
Replacing Unicode non-breakable spaces by normal spaces
I am using the Neo keyboard layout, which uses all kinds of modifier keys to input all kinds of characters (e.g. Greek letters and mathematical symbols). It also has shift+Mod3+space mapped to Unicode ...
4
votes
1answer
365 views
high and low CJK codepoints in a single XeLaTeX document
I often require a combination of CJK characters with both low and high codepoints in the same line of text. (Here "low" means "in the Basic Multilingual Plane" or BMP, with codepoint lower than hex ...
3
votes
0answers
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Font Appears different [closed]
Hi I am using Sanskrit2003 font and it appears with additional circle in TeXWorks, just to verify I copied it to MS Word & open office and it appeared fine in word.
I am attaching an image to ...
3
votes
2answers
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How to input foreign unicode characters into XeLaTeX?
Friends,
I am working on a XeLaTeX document. I am almost done with my document, but I need to input text from a foreign language. I am running Mac OS X. I go to Preferences > Language & Text and ...
3
votes
2answers
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XeLaTeX, WinEdt 6.0 and UTF-8
I'm using WinEdt 6.0 and need to write German umlaute. Using XeLaTeX, i need to save the tex-file in utf-8 to have native support for this - does anyone know how to tweak WinEdt so that it saves in ...
2
votes
1answer
680 views
Arrows with Text (Using Unicode Devanagari fonts)
\documentclass[fleqn,12pt,a4paper]{article} % normal
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra,xunicode}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{color}
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