Questions tagged [ebgaramond]
Questions about and applications of the "EB Garamond" font family
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How do I use semibold from the ebgaramond package?
According to the readme of the ebgaramond package it adds font styles:
What do I have to do to set a certain part of the text to semibold? What do I have to do with the sb?
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Italic Cyrillic character display as tofu characters and other weirdnesses in LuaTeX using font EB Garamond
For some reason with the EB Garamond font, italic Cyrillic characters do not appear at all with LuaTeX, even though I have the italic font installed (and it supports Cyrillic) and it works in XeTeX.
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EB Garamond: no bullet point in itemize list
I installed the EB Garamond fonts as follows:
From the GitHub repo, I went to the Release page and downloaded lastest nightly release, which is dated 13th March 2023 and corresponds to commit d04d0f9
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Font letters ebgaramond with the Editor Texifier
How to use ebgaramond \usepackage{ebgaramond} to have bold letters in Editor Texifier.
Although the font has bold letters in the package, there aren't in the output. At least the titles I would like ...
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fontspec not finding fonts with neither XeLaTeX nor LuaLaTeX
I've tried so many fonts and none of them work, all I get is:
! LaTeX Error: File `ebgaramond.sty' not found.
This is an example of what I have on my document, though I've tried many others:
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Some Fonts Do Not Work Properly With `multicols` and `babel`
I initially posted this on the EB Garamond repository, but was suggested to ask it here instead. This is an issue that occurs with only two fonts that I tried: EB Garamond and Junicode Two Beta. If ...
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fontspec and EB Garamond: Cannot use EBGaramond12-Italic
I dowloaded EB Garamond from https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond/releases/tag/nightly and copied all fonts, .otf and .ttf to ~/.fonts/e
The typeface contains different font files for the optical ...
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Horizontal spacing before and after inline math mode with custom font
I'm using EB Garamond with text and math. The problem is that inline math expressions seem to be way too close to the normal text, like the font hasn't been configured correctly.
I'm looking to fix ...
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Fix Kerning Internal to a Unicode Character
Is there any way to drill down into the code that defines, for example, Ἄ to fix the kerning of the diacritics? It's worse in ebgaramond; it's not very much better in computer modern.
\documentclass{...
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Subscript overlaps uppercase Q with unicode-math
With the following code, the last three items are rendered with the subscript overlapping the tail of the Q. Tested with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
I can manually fix this, but what is the right solution?
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Errors with XeLaTeX after installing TexLive 2022
I just upgraded to TexLive 2022 (I was using version 2016). Now XeLaTeX is failing to typeset my files.
I am using subfiles to keep common preamble and macros in one place only and several smaller ...
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How to change font for chapter, section, headings in Latex document?
Would like to preface this by saying that I am fairly new to Latex. My query is that I would like to change the font for my chapter, section and subsection headings to raleway while keeping the font ...
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Font works with \usepackage but not with \newfontfamily
I am trying to get someone else's thesis template to run, but the EBGaramond font is not working. I also have never used .cls files in latex, so I'm not sure if I'm missing something. In the .cls file,...
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Using \setmainlanguage{german} after \usepackage{polyglossia} leads to odd-looking capital umlaut letters when using EB Garamond
Pay attention to the style of the capital umlaut letters “ÄÖÜ” aud “ÄÖÜ” in both cases.
Example 1 (with \setmainlanguage{german}):
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\...
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Garamond font issue with numbers
I am using ebgaramond package to generate my document in Garamond font style but I have an issue that the numbers are not produced in a nice look
Here is my code
% !TeX TS-program = lualatex
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Current Status of the Remaining Garamond Initials to be Colorized (Colorlettrine Package)
Ten years ago today, the following was posted on Tex Talk:
https://tex-talk.net/2011/08/putting-colors-in-initials/
However, it seems that no new dropcaps have been added over the past ten years, as ...
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EB Garamond: \textfont6 is undefined with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX
I'm using ebgaramond font in amsart class. With pdflatex, everything works fine. However, when trying to typeset with xelatex or lualatex, I get multiple errors like \textfont6 is undefined (character ...
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Inconsistent spacing around equation environments with EB Garamond
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I have inconsistent spacing between text and equation (not ending paragraph). It doesn't seem to be related to large symbols like integrals or indexed sums. (see edit 2.) When using default (...
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Font features of EBGaramond don't work correctly
%% Fontspec provides an interface to system fonts and Opentype features
\usepackage{fontspec}
%% Load default features. An asterisk means they are supposed to be
%% enabled by default, but engines ...
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Missing characters in Garamond-Math font
I have used the first option in the accepted answer to Garamond and math fonts
However, I get errors such as
Missing character: There is no ___ (U+225C) in font [Garamond-Math.otf]:mode=bas"
And ...
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colorlettrine only support a few characters
I am trying to use colorlettrine package. I installed EB Garamond package, but soon discovered that only a few letter are supported. If I try S for example, it comes up as an empty box.
Are there some ...
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EB Garamond initials and hyperref package
Consider the following MWE (to be compiled with XeLaTeX):
% TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\...
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Bi-coloured EB Garamond initials using the ebgaramond package
I am very fascinated by https://tex-talk.net/2011/08/putting-colors-in-initials/
and I have noticed that EB Garamond now has its own LaTeX package ebgaramond but when I am trying to look into i, I ...
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Replace hyphen character from other font
I use the EB Garamond font. The only thing that has been bothering me for a long time is the hyphen character, which is slightly sloping. Is it possible to replace the hyphen character of EB Garamond ...
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Kerning ligatures with font-feature in luatex
Manipulating fonts is somewhat daunting, and usually too much for me, so I restrict myself to a few things. I use Duffner's EB Garamond -- his original version from his website. I'm a bit puzzled by ...
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Garamond for both text and math
As far as I'm concerned, there are three main ways of producing documents using the Garamond typeface for both text and math, namely:
Using the mathdesign package, which lets you use both URW ...
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EBGaramond lining numbers for headings in KOMAScript
I'm using KOMA-Script with pdflatex (might want to switch to lualatex eventually) to typeset my thesis and want to use EBGaramond as a font. To this end I am loading the ebgaramond-maths package, ...
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Oldstyle figure 1 in EB Garamond
Using ebgaramond package, is there any way to get an oldstyle figure 1 that looks like a shorter 1 rather than a shorter I?
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ebgaramond gives LaTeX3 Error: Command '\swshape' already defined [closed]
Consider:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\begin{document}
Test
\end{document}
Gives me:
$ lualatex test.tex
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019)
restricted system ...
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document using ebgaramond package won't print, and won't work on LuaLaTeX
I have a document that I prepared with the ebgaramond package, because I like the look of Garamond fonts. It looks fine on the screen, but when I try to print it, all the characters that should be in ...
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EB Garamond: Context Alternatives, but no swashy Q.long
In a book xetex document, I am using EB Garamond in the older version of Georg Duffner (see egregs answer here: Accessing the short-arched f in EB Garamond).
It has the calt feature (contextual ...
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Font feature +frac not applied on EBGaramond italic
I'm running into a problem using the +frac feature in italic text, though it seems to me that it should work. The feature doesn't seem to be applied properly unless I force the text into \upshape.
It ...
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XeTeX: How to *globally* replace an ASCII character with another symbol?
A few months ago, I asked whether the “EB Garamond” font contains a short-arched version of the letter f. I have now found out how to access this letter because it actually exists. Writing
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Ligatures with EB Garamond
My minimal non-working example is:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\begin{document}
This is a test. Quisque
{\addfontfeature{RawFeature=+hlig}standard, ...
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Accessing the short-arched f in EB Garamond
Long-arched fs tend inappropriately to touch their successors, and one
often desires a narrower alternative, for example when the next letter
is 'ä'. This is achieved by the calt feature, IF the \...
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Kerning in italic contractions when using EB Garamond
I'm using EB Garamond to typeset some text and find that the kerning in italic contractions can be a bit generous for my taste. Consider this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}...
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Is there a “non ligature ‘short f’” in Junicode or EB Garamond?
This is how f and its ligatures look like when using Latin Modern Roman, Junicode or EB Garamond:
Note that Latin Modern Roman’s “normal” f is short whereas the other f’s are “long”. Disabling ...
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enotez option backref with ebgaramond adds interline-spacing
When I load enotez and set the option backref with the font garamond (via ebgaramond), there is, for some reason, some extra space inserted between the line where the endnote-marker is placed and the ...
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\hookrightarrow with ebgaramond-math
I'm using the font EB Garamond for a document I'm typesetting, but it seems that \hookrightarrow only renders a normal arrow. Here's the code I'm using:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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Using EB Garamond Bold with pdfLaTeX
So, EB Garamond got an update in the end of last year.
Now it should also support bold text in pdfLaTeX, I supposed. But I still didn't get it working. Was I wrong to think that I could use my ...
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Garamond is not wide enough
I'm writing my PhD thesis and I'm considering to use garamond, particulary ebgaramond. The thing is that the book should be written in A4: with a fontsize of 11pt each of my lines has an average of 90 ...
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EB Garamond, and fontspec for "optical bold" with small caps?
This is somewhat a continuation of my EB Garamond (bold) small caps "suddenly" unavailable in lualatex? ; below, I had written some more details about this font for reference - but in brief, ...
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Use line numbers in text with EBGaramond-math and LuaTex
I try to use line numbers in text with EBGaramond-math font and Luatex. With the code below, the numbers in math mode are lining, but in the text oldstyle font is used.
\documentclass[]{standalone}
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How to make an epsilon with ebgaramond-maths
I am using ebgaramond font and trying to make an epsilon:
\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}
\usepackage[lining]{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}
\begin{document}
Epilon: $\epsilon$
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ebgaramond remove Q-"swash" in Xetex
I have a problem with EBGaramond. I need Xelatex because of unicode (Ancient Greek etc.) characters, but the swashy "Q" seems a bit much for the publishers.
I got rid of it in the main text by ...
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EB-Garamond fake boldface on figure labels
I am using EB-Garamond Fake Boldface with Mathdesign to make get boldfaces. However, I cannot get the figure labels in boldface using the \captionsetup[figure]{labelfont=bf}. I think this is probably ...
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XeLaTex and Fontspec crash trying to find woff file for some fonts but not others
Running XeLaTex on this example results in a pdf as expected:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt, notitlepage]{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\setmainfont{Cabin}
\begin{...
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How to define a different font as the BoldFont in fontspec?
Update: I'm part of the way to a solution. This works:
\setmainfont{EBGaramond}[
UprightFont = /Users/moacir/Library/Fonts/EBGaramond ,
% Pick a system font that is also .otf:
BoldFont = /...
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fontspec font-not-found / Invalid fontname on Mac update
Over the past few years, I have had a rare but recurring problem where, when I typeset a document using EB Garamond, which I have installed on my Mac, I receive the following error:
(/usr/local/...
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Which fontspec CharacterVariant values are available?
The fontspec package allows me to do this:
\fontspec{EB Garamond 12 Italic} very \\
\fontspec{EB Garamond 12 Italic}[CharacterVariant=5] very \\
\fontspec{EB Garamond 12 Italic}[CharacterVariant=5:0] ...
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