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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xelatex vs. xelatexmk compilation – what’s the difference?
I'm using TeX Live 2012 in a Windows environment.
I used to compile with xelatexmk, which isn't included in TeX Live's "Processing tools". When I wanted to switch from LaTeX to XeLaTeX, I read ...
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Combining mark over ligature (Devanagari)
I want to typeset the combination m̐llo in Devanagari with XeLaTeX.
When I use the correct Unicode ल्ँलो, there is no ligature of the ls.
When I place the candrabindu on the ligature the o is not ...
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Xe(La)TeX and minitoc [closed]
Previously I was using minitoc with pdftex and everything was just fine. Some days ago I switch to Xe(La)TeX and I have problems using this package. I am trying to make minitoc work in memoir document ...
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How to prevent combining a character?
"EB Garamond" font combines ʿ character and the preceding letter.
Consider following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\begin{document}
aʿ bʿ cʿ dʿ ...
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How to make pdf show current date? [duplicate]
Is there a way to make a pdf show the current date (not the date when it was compiled, but when it was opened/printed)? I'm making some sign sheets and it would be great if I could put the date in ...
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XeTeX: problem with g-brief2 and polyglossia
today I discovered a problem with the polyglossia package and the g-brief2 class. I hope someone can help me to fix it. :)
Here is my polyglossia MWE (polyg.tex):
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How do I install and use nlatexdb? (or latexdb, ratexdb)?
This question is related to this question regarding typesetting a MySQL database using UTF-8 encoding with Xelatex.
I ask this in desperation as it involved printing 552 rows for my thesis! I need ...
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How to make circumflexes wider but still of a fixed size in XeTeX?
Circumflexes looks too small and they are to close to the symbol in the PDF generated by XeLaTeX from UTF-8 source with Asana Math font for mathematics:
Source:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
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Vector images rasterized when converting to PDF? (XeTeX)
I've been using LyX with vector images in *.eps format for the longest time. Now I've moved to a new machine (a mac), tried to get the same work environment back, and ran into this problem:
Creating ...
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List of all post original TeX control commands
Is there a well documented list of all control commands added by all post Knuth's Tex like PdfTeX, e-TeX, XeTex, LuaTeX?
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Font Handling in XeTeX
Knuth's original Tex implementation uses TFM files to use font information for typesetting. Since XeTeX supports TrueType and OpenType fonts through fontspec package, how does it use these type of ...
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XeLaTeX Errors on Windows 7 [closed]
I'm trying to get a minimal XeLaTeX document to compile in Windows 7 with MiKTeX 2.9. I have updated all of my installed MikTeX packages and am still getting many errors during compilation.
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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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Can xeCJK be used with the font Times?
The following minimal example fed into xelatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{MingLiU}
\usepackage{times}
\begin{document}
Test 汉语
\end{document}
typesets the CJK ...
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epspdfconversion problems in xelatex
I am using xelatex and I am trying to use epspdfconversion package to on-the-fly remove unnecessary empty margins from my figures. The figures themselves are dynamically generated and calculating a ...
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Editing page numbers
How can I make the page numbers begin from 2, and hide them in the first two pages in LaTeX document which is using the report class.
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Could not insert pdf graphics
Using \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{mypdf} I tried to insert a PDF image to my XeLaTeX document. But instead of the images empty area places in its place.
\documentclass{article}
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Can't use \left. … \right| in a custom environment
I'm writing a Hebrew (RTL) document with equations and I compile it with xelatex. The equation numbers are wrong and I have found that placing \LTR tag before the equation fix this. I have created an ...
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How to input b with stroke?
I want to use the symbol ƀ (b with stroke) in my document. I use it for the blank symbol in the formal definition of Turing machines.
I use XeLaTeX, so I should be able to use the Unicode symbol, but ...
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Custom font not loaded
I have an .otf font in same dir with .tex files. I'm using XeLaTex to work with this font, consider following code
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[xetex]{graphicx}
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(missing space in) “today” formatting in Polish using polyglossia
Just discovered TeX few days ago :)
Experimenting a lot now. I am trying to make a template for my thesis (which is going to use quotations and bibliography in a good few languages and some serious ...
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Punctuation in superscripting with Natbib in Xetex
I'm trying to use the achemso package for my bibliography and citations. I'm also trying to using Xetex to use the Minion Pro fonts. When I just typeset with LaTeX and do everything in Computer Modern ...
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XeTeX font problem (font-not-found) on Mac OS X 10.8
I installed Gotham font by copying otf files to /Library/Fonts/Gotham. Although Font Book cannot show the installed Gotham font properly (characters are borken), but Font Validation was fine, and it ...
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Xelatex: Accent and macrons on capital letters. Multiple accents on a single letter?
I have trouble getting capital letters with a combination of accent and macron in XeLaTeX. I used this: \'{\=A}, but I didn't get the accent where I expected it to be. Also, i was wondering if it is ...
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How can I typeset with LaTeXDB using XeLaTeX?
Related question
Using the sample code on this site, http://hgesser.com/software/latexdb/workshop.html, I would like to
query my MySQL database and typeset using XeLaTeX.
This is because all of ...
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First time XeLaTeX UTF8 bibliography in TeXworks
I see people having various problems related to bibliographies in TEX.SE, but I cannot really benefit from answers, because I'm not sure how to use any bibliography let alone UTF8.
Could anybody ...
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Font problem with XeLaTeX
When trying to compile my .tex file using the xelatex command in TeXmaker (with MiKTeX), I get this error message:
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
!
! The font "Linux Libertine O" cannot be ...
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how to control font and paragraph formatting in margins
i'm having a hard time to figure out how to control the exact appearance of margin text (such as is output by the \marginpar command). i'm using XeLaTeX with packages such as geometry, fontspec, ...
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Stuck with XeLaTeX fonts on Mountain Lion [closed]
I've been exploring XeLaTeX recently because I was interested in the, apparently, smoother font handling than offered by LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. However, I have yet to get a test document to compile even ...
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How do the various LaTeX compilers (LaTeX, XeLaTeX, PDFLaTeX, ???) differ in terms of use(s), purpose(s), pros and cons? [duplicate]
How do the various LaTeX compilers (LaTeX, XeLaTeX, PDFLaTeX, ???, ConTeXt, fill-in-the-gap) differ?
Is there an authoritive list of all currently available LaTeX-related compilers?
Which are the ...
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fontspec does not work correctly. MiKTeX portable, no admin rights
I am trying to set up a TeX System at work, where I have no admin rights. So I went for MiKTeX portable. It is "installed" on my Desktop. I want to use fontspec with XeLaTeX to be able to choose the ...
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Emulating amsmath's \varGamma…\varOmega with unicode-math
While recompiling old documents with XeLaTeX and unicode-math I have run into the two problems:
The amsmath \varGamma...\varOmega macros for slanted uppercase Greek math characters are not defined. ...
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Spurious dot with xeCJK, TikZ
I have a very strange problem when using TikZ and xeCJK. I managed to extract this MWE from my original sources:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
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XeLaTeX and bib entries with nocite
I am using xelatex to compile my document for the first time.
I would like to know what exactly I am doing wrong, because it is no generating any bibtex entries with nocite command.
Main File -
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XeLaTeX inside chroot jail
I'm using xetex 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian).
I'm trying to run xelatex inside chroot jail.
I've copied following binaries and directories:
pdftex
bibtex
xdvipdfmx
xelatex
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XeLaTeX: how do I make paper to be exactly the size of the content?
In LaTeX I can make a document to be exactly the size of the content:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[active]{preview}
\begin{document}
\begin{preview}
\[
\pi = \sqrt{12}\sum^\infty_{k=0} ...
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Real numbers symbol in XeTeX
How can I get the 'real number' sign (something like \mathbb{R} with the amssymb package in LaTeX) in XeTeX?
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How to add LineFinal (falt) or WordFinal (fina) features to Garamond Premier Pro on XeLaTeX?
I'm still familiarizing myself with XeLaTeX and the fontspec package. I would like to access the OpenType feature LineFinal or WordFinal with the Garamond Premier Pro font from Adobe.
For example, I ...
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xetex - myriad pro - want “bold” but not “bold condensed” font
Situation: I've got Myriad Pro included in xetex via:
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Myriad Pro}
But when I use
\textbf{this is a test}
and see the result in Acrobat, I can see that I've gotten ...
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How can I add a background to every page except the first?
I want to make a company letterhead in LaTeX (example output here), and I did it using fancyhdr and absolute positioning, which, while horrible, worked fine so far.
I must have updated XeLaTeX, ...
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Indentation after section title on a first item of “easylist” item
The code:
% XeLaTeX
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{letterpaper}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[50, sharp]{easylist}
\usepackage{titlesec}
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Font Size Conversion
I am writing a document that is supposed to be typeset in Time New Roman or equivalent. The problem I have is that 12pt in font A is not the same as 12pt in font B. So is there a conversion table of ...
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How to specify self-installed fonts to XeLaTeX?
I successfully installed the font (*.tfm, *.pfb and *.vf files) of my university, I'm now struggling to use them with XeLaTeX. About my specifications:
I am running TeXLive 2011 using AucTex 11.86.
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System: XeLaTeX, Circumstance: Automation, PROBLEM: error message “missing \item”
I am currently generating PDF's with variable contents from a template I made. Data is fetched from a database and used to create reports. This has been working greatly until recently I needed to ...
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online xetex compiler for calibri
Anyone know of an online service where a thesis can be typeset quickly with Calibri font ( which requires xetex)? I have to submit in a few hours and would like to get it done by someone who knows how ...
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fontspec: \setmainfont problem, bold/italic/bolditalic font error [closed]
A long time ago i posted about an error I occur when trying to set the mainfont using xelatex and the fontspec package, specifically the bold/italic/bolditalic fonts.
My previous post from 2011 is ...
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Index with a combination of one and two columns
I am using the following to create my index file.
heading_prefix "{\n\\bfseries\\color{black} " % insert in front of letter
heading_suffix "\\hfil}\\nopagebreak\n" % append after letter
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Asana Math + XeLaTeX: missing math upon resaving or editing in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Related to this question:
Asana-math + LuaTeX : missing greeks/arrows
I experienced similar problems with a PDF produced by XeLaTeX (v0.9998) with MiKTeX 2.9 and Adobe Acrobat Pro IX or XI:
The PDF ...
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Problem showing English characters with xepersian
I'm using TeXstudio in order to write a report and I use XeLaTeX compiler. However the following code :
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\usepackage[left=1.00cm, ...
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Spaces inside Cyrillic listings
I want to include source file using listing package. In that file there are some cyrillic symbols in comments.
I setup listings like:
\lstset{extendedchars=\true,basicstyle=\ttfamily}
And in ...
