Questions tagged [cyrillic]
{cyrillic} is for questions about using TeX for typesetting documents in Cyrillic script.
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Cyrillic in (La)TeX
What are different ways to use Cyrillic in (La)TeX? What are their pros and cons?
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inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8: not set up for use with LaTeX
This is with ref to my previous question Package clash in multilingual report.
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\...
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What packages will let me use Cyrillic characters in math mode?
Note I'm not actually planning on writing any, for instance, Russian prose or even any Russian words. It's just that, on paper, I've always had the habit of denoting sets by uppercase roman letters, ...
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What fonts are compatible with T2A (Cyrillic) encoding?
I'm trying to figure out what fonts are compatible with T2A encoding - seems like there's no such a list known to Google.
I've identified that iwona and computer roman (default) are supported. ...
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Can't get unicode symbols in math mode
I am trying for about a week to launch unicode-math package with XeLaTeX and got nothing. PDF is created well but all Cyrillic symbols in math mode are skipped. I tried using different math fonts - no ...
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I just want to write \Sha without ruining everything
I realize similar questions have been asked before but I am not satisfied with any of the answers I've seen. I would like to use the Cyrillic letter Ш to denote a particular group in mathematics. Most ...
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\tableofcontents encoding issue with lualatex
I have a issue when trying to generate table of contents with lualatex in russian. Following example fails to build with ! Undefined control sequence.
\contentsname ->{\cyr \CYRS \cyro \cyrd \cyre \...
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Serbian Cyrillic using LuaTeX and XeTeX
This question is directly inspired by Martin Schroder's answer to this question. Namely, I am wondering how would one use LuaTeX or XeTeX to produce Serbian (little bit different than Russian) ...
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Using cyrillic with Tex Gyre Pagella and pdflatex?
I just saw in this posting: How to access cyrillic letters in the TeX Gyre fonts (e.g. pagella)? - comp.text.tex the note: "the TeX Gyre Pagella font, which includes glyphs
for cyrillic.". There is an ...
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How to install a latex package in MacOS TeXLive?
I just downloaded cyrillic package into a temp directory and executed:
sudo latex cyrlatex.ins
It works, but it produces a few dozen files in the same directory. How to place them into my TeXLive ...
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Create a mapping for transliteration from cyrillic to latin in LuaLaTeX
I created a .map file for Cyrillic to Latin transliteration as in using xetex for automatic transliteration of Cyrillic letters
I placed the cyrillic-to-latin.tec file in the folder.
\documentclass{...
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Using XeTeX for automatic transliteration of cyrillic letters
This is a follow-up question to the following question: Serbian Cyrillic using LuaTeX and XeTeX.
I actually often need character substitution the other way around, that is, I write cyrillic, but ...
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How to make appendix and hyperref packages work together with cyrillic (non ASCII) characters?
I have a LaTeX document with hyperref and appendix packages that fails to build. But if I switch off either appendix or hyperref everything works fine.
\documentclass[14pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]...
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Misplaced Accents in Cyrillic Text
In educational material for the Russian language and linguistic literature the need to put accents on Cyrillic vowels often arises. However when I tried to do this with luaLaTeX the accents where ...
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Non-English characters in URLs with Biblatex-Chicago + Biber
Is there any way to keep the URLs in the same form they are saved within the .bib files when using biblatex-chicago with Biber? For instance, the entry
@misc{RussianEmpire.1855,
author = {Russian ...
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Listing with mixed english and russian symbols in comments
I'm using the listings package for formatting .cpp code in LaTeX. My code needs to have mixed English and Russian words in comments. The font must be monospaced (preffered Courier family).
/* Prints ...
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Easy method to activate cyrplain package (CyrTeX)
I would like to have a Cyrillic version of TeX/AMSTeX. I have installed the cyrplain package, but further instructions are too long and technical for me, sometimes referring to README of other ...
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Why does \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} take over?
I want to produce a document with non-serif type. I also want to include Cyrillic characters. These two aims seem to be mutually exclusive. When I comment out \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}, the document ...
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Japanese and Russian Characters in the same Document
I'm writing a document in English. However, I need to use a few words of both Japanese and Russian. In principle, it seems to work, but as soon as I used Japanese characters, I cannot use Russian ...
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Cyrillic monospaced font in XeLaTeX
I've installed full TexLive 2011 using "install-tl" script in Ubuntu 12.04. When I was using TexLive 2009 from repositories the following file was compiled without any errors.
\documentclass{article}...
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What is wrong with cyrillic package?
I downloaded cyrillic package and installed it into /opt/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic. I did latex cyrlatex.ins, and then texhash. Now this is my document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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Cyrillic symbols in math equation xetex
I use Times New Roman font for my report.
But in the math expressions are not displayed Cyrillic characters.
Example:
\begin{equation}
S_{ном.} = S_{123}
\end{equation}
output
\documentclass[...
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Cyrillic first names problem with natbib and bibtex
I'm using natbib and bibtex, typesetting a document in Russian (with pdflatex) in chicago. For an entry like this:
@book{belyj1913,
Address = {Москва},
Author = {Андрей Белый},
Publisher = {Наука},
...
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Using PTSerif-TLF for Cyrillic with TeX Gyre Pagella
I want to include some Cyrillic with a TeX Gyre Pagella text and math font document. I'm using TeXLive 2019.
As indicated in Using cyrillic with Tex Gyre Pagella and pdflatex?, running pdflatex on ...
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Error: The current roman font does not contain the cyrillic script!
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{russian}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Times New Roman}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\end{document}
I ...
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LuaLaTex/XeLaTex with KOMA for Cyrillics
How can I use LuaLatex/XeLaTex with KOMA-script for Cyrillics?
When I try to write:
\documentclass[twoside]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont{CMU Serif}
\usepackage{...
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Good reference for learning how fonts works
Can you suggest a book/textbook that will help me to learn how fonts works in LaTeX ?
The problem is next: for two years I will write my Master's theses (for beginning) in Serbian in Cyrillic. There ...
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What fonts can I use for writing in Cyrillic in LaTeX
What other fonts are available to write in Cyrillic in LaTeX beside T2A, T2B, T2C?
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how to insert arabic glyphs in pdflatex
I'm trying to create an English document using pdflatex and want to insert a few cyrillic and arabic glyphs.
something like
the letter Я is cyrillic, whereas ش is arabic
I tried to follow advice ...
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Tajik language in LaTeX
My question is about adding a new language into LaTeX: the Tajik language.
There is Russian language support in LaTeX and Russian is written using a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. Tajik ...
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Cyrillic em-dash is rendered inconsistently
I've noticed that the same Cyrillic em-dash is rendered differently in English and Russian bibliographic entries. As you can see below, in Russian it's rendered as a single rule but in English it's ...
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Non-ascii characters are not displayed in hyperref's pdftitle: bug in the 'unicode' option?
I'm trying to make pdflatex display non-ascii (cyrillic) characters in PDF metadata using hyperref's pdftitle and pdfauthor options. Here is my document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[russian]{...
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How can I change font in pdf forms? [closed]
I'm making a pdf form with "hyperref" package:
\usepackage[unicode,pdftex,hidelinks]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{unicode=true,pdfauthor={Author},pdfkeywords={some words},
pdftitle={some title},...
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Strikethrough Cyrillic text in XeTeX preserving hyphenation [duplicate]
I was looking for the way to create a strikeout text in XeTeX. After some googling I found two packages that supposedly could do that: ulem and soul. However, it turned out that both of them have some ...
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babel's \foreignlanguage works for Russian, but not for Serbian
I was trying to write the Serbian alphabet using:
\usepackage[serbian, english]{babel}
...
\foreignlanguage{serbian}{D d}
But I get nothing. When I try this with e.g:
\usepackage[russian, english]{...
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Mix cyrillic characters and latin in XeLaTeX
I would like to mix cyrillic and latin characters in my document using XeLaTeX. It compiles, but the cyrillic characters do not show up in the pdf. Also, I would like to use the default LaTeX font for ...
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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};
\end{...
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XeLaTeX + polyglossia + Russian or Greek = page number in italics
Consider the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{russian}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\begin{document}
\itshape Text.
\end{document}
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Conditional \endinput
I want to prevent processing rest part of a package in case if it is loaded not from lualatex. For some reason I cannot load ifluatex package, so I borrowed definition of \ifluatex from that package ...
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Problem working fontspec, babel and datetime with cyrillic
I have discovered that fontspec with russian babel settings doesn't work with datetime package. I tried to compile such code:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\...
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Cyrillic letters ACM template
I'm trying to use Cyrillic letters in the ACM Official Master Template. To use Cyrillic letters it is necessary to use the T2A font encoding, so I set \usepackage[T1, T2A]{fontenc} because I use both, ...
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Kha with descender (the "ҳ" symbol)
So, using pdfLaTeX, I need to write the Kha with descender symbol (which looks like ҳ). Taken from Wikipedia:
It comes up with Afghan history, if anyone's curious why I need it...
I know this can be ...
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Use Cyrillic characters in the table of contents with \pdfbookmark
I am trying to do a book which has its main language as Russian. The problem is that on the second compiler run on TeXShop (LaTeX document) when it needs to create the bookmarks in Russian, it ...
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How to number subfigures in Serbian Cyrillic?
How can I number subfigures using Serbian Cyrillic letters: (а), (б), (в), (г), (д) and so on? I'd like the solution to be compatible with Polyglossia.
Here's the MWE for the question.
\...
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biblatex: Abbreviating cyrillic authors' names with firstinits option [closed]
When setting the bibliography with biblatex using the authoryear-comp style and option firstinits=true the authors' first names in the references are not correctly displayed when using cyrillic names.
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Cannot typeset cyrillic text in italics and bold at the same time using the LinuxLibertine font
I cannot tell if the following is a bug in the LinuxLibertine OTF files
or if it is a bug in XeLaTeX (or both?). The problem is: when I try to typeset
cyrillic text in italic and bold, the glyphs ...
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XeLaTeX can't find font
Yes, I've seen this question. It is (1) five years old, (2) answered with answers that do not work for me, and (3) I don't have enough reputation to comment (and posting question as an answer seems ...
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LuaTeX cyrillic hyphenation problems
I am trying to use LuaTeX (LuaLaTeX) in MiKTeX 2.9 and I'm stuck with getting it to load cyrillic hyphenation patterns. I'm quite new to LuaTeX, so maybe there's something special about hyphenation ...
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LuaLatTeX inefficiency in transliteration from cyrillic of acute accented vowels
Transliteration from cyrillic to latin characters can be done in LuaLaTeX with the help of directlua as shown by @DavidCarlisle: Create a mapping for transliteration from cyrillic to latin in LuaLaTeX
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Stylish index for cyrillic input with xindy!
I trying to stylish index. I want to implement one cool template in my project and edit it a lot for my pleasure. In order to begin that, I want to implement it without any changes. But in that ...
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