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Babel or Polyglossia with LuaLatex? [duplicate]

what is actually better to use with LuaLaTex: Babel or Polyglossia? I read everywhere that we should prefer Polyglossia over Babel when using LuaLaTex because LuaLaTex did not completely support ...
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Future of babel and polyglossia [duplicate]

Lately I've been trying both babel and polyglossia against each other to see if there are any advantages either way. But to my untrained eye there is no significant difference in regards to output ...
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Decide between Polyglossia and Babel for LuaLaTeX in 2019

Which are the key questions one has to ask to decide between Polyglossia and Babel for a LuaLaTeX project in 2019? There has been a similar, more general question in 2012, but the packages have ...
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Packages for writing Letter

I am looking for packages to write letters. The packages should be able to understand the German DIN1338{a,b} letter format. What are common packages which are still maintained? I meant DIN 5008 Din ...
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What is preventing progress bar in beamer from showing up?

I'd like to add a progress bar to my presentation (I got the idea from this question) but I believe something is preventing it from showing up in output and I can't seem to figure it out. Here is my ...
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mathdesign compiles ß to SS

I'd like to use the package mathdesign, but it somehow makes problems with the german letter ß. My question is related to XeTeX: “ß” compiles as “SS”, German umlauts work but different because the ...
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Decide between Polyglossia and Babel for XeLaTeX in 2019

Which are the key questions one has to ask to decide between Polyglossia and Babel for a XeLaTeX project in 2019? There has been a similar, more general question in 2012, but the packages have ...
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Lualatex error with polyglossia's \setotherlanguages and ntheorem

Consider this MWE: \documentclass[10pt,twoside,openright]{book} % http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44701/2595 \usepackage{iftex} \ifPDFTeX \usepackage[greek,danish,english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]...
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BibLaTeX: autolang=hyphen causing translation of key terms

I am writing a multilingual document and want bibliography entries properly hyphenated for their language. I do not want to translate terms in the bibliography like "in", "p.", and "edited by". As I ...
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Language settings (fancyref) with fontspec and polyglossia

I have problems getting fancyref to properly work for German together with the fontspec/polyglossia set-up. This is the bare set-up without any language settings: \documentclass{scrartcl} \...
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polyglossia with XeLaTeX produces different pagebreaks than babel

I have observed some strange behavior and I would like to know if this is a bug, and if so, then whose bug it is. When using polyglossia with XeLaTeX, I sometimes get different pagebreaks than when ...
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