Questions tagged [fontspec]
{fontspec} is a package for loading {opentype} fonts in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
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“CMU Serif” font is not found by fontspec
When I compile a document using the CMU Serif font:
%!TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum...
\end{document}
I ...
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Writing ॐ in latex
I am trying to write a document in Bengali, where at a point I need to write the sanskrit letter ॐ. However, I am not able to write it yet. Here is my working example:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Cantonese characters in LaTeX (Ubuntu)
I'm trying to type the characters 部機都冇咗嘞。in a LaTeX document, but I've never done it before (this sentence can be found in sentence #9 in this Universal Dependencies Github repository). I tried
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Why hindi is not getting typeset in this example?
\documentclass[12pts, a4paper, twocolumn, columnsep= 4 mm]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec, polyglossia}
\usepackage[Devanagari]{ucharclasses}
\setmainfont{Calibri}
\setTransitionTo{Devanagari}{\...
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LuaLaTeX: Smarter font selection macro for super-families
Fontspec with LuaLaTeX works well for small font families, but appears cumbersome to use with super-families. A modern super-family can contain tens of fonts in Weight/Width/Slope (WWS) matrix. As an ...
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Why error is coming when using listings in polyglossia package?
The complete file is here.
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt,fancy,authoryear,twoside]{elegantbook}
%--------------------------------------------------
%Bengali Font in Document
%--------------------------...
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How to use fontspec in details?
I would like to use the fontspec package to change the font family.
I use four different fonts in the same document and want to create a font family based on the fonts installed on my Windows machine, ...
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Adding Font Features to only certain Font Shapes
How do I add some font features (such as ligatures) to only certain font shapes?
The ideas is to disable ligatures for RB, RBI shapes, etc. since they give me a warning anyway.
I briefed over the ...
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Why doesn't chapter number show when elegant book class uses polyglossia package?
When elegantbook class (3.11) uses polyglossia package it does not show chapter number at header?
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt,fancy,authoryear,twoside]{elegantbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%-------------...
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Fontspec - Italic small caps with semi-bold
I have problems when I use small italic capitals with a "non-standard" font weight (here semi-bold).
I tried several things like FontFace={sb}{it}{Font=LinLibertine_RZI_G. ttf, ...
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example from “novel” book class does not compile
I tried to compile the example document novel-example.tex delivered as part of the novel package. The compilation terminated with the message: ! Package fontspec Error: The font "LatinModernRoman&...
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Chapter number is not showing in elegantbook class for Bengali
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt]{elegantbook}
%--------------------------------------------------
%Bengali Font in Document
%--------------------------------------------------
% For a bilingual document
\...
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Change a font weight
I want to create a new font family with \newfontfamily{\rb}{Roboto} from here:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto?subset=latin&preview.text=Hello&preview.text_type=custom#standard-styles
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,,Improper \halign inside $$'s`` with lmodern/microtype/fontspec
This is less of an actual problem than a "why does this happen" question. When working on a larger document, I started getting spurious and (to me) inexplicable Improper \halign inside $$'s. ...
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Define different fonts for different scripts
I'm trying to define different fonts for different scripts, Latin and Greek. I'm currently using Linux Libertine O as my main font, which includes support for Greek, but I would like to try using a ...
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emshape undefined
In the following example the line \renewcommand\emshape works fine on one Linux computer using Kile but has to be commented out on another Linux computer also using Kile.
There are not other ...
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Use FiraCode ss01 font feature with fontspec and LuaLaTeX
How can I set specific stylistic sets of a font (ss01, ss03, but not ss02) with fontspec and LuaLaTeX? For instance, with the FiraCode font.
This question is not a duplicate of How to replace a letter?...
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\\selectlanguage{} cumulates word spacings in non-normalsize environments
The following MWE shows an effect where the word spacing in non-normalsize-d text blocks "grows" with every \selectlanguage that introduces a previously unused language (using lualatex):
\...
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How to use / importing Calibri font into Overleaf with LuaLaTeX compiler
I'm trying to get a Calibri font to work on Overleaf for the entire document with the LuaLaTeX as the compiler. I'm a bit new to LuaLaTeX.
Currently, I have defined a folder, called Fonts, which has ...
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In a typical document where does sans font apply?
I am learning about the fontspec package to load fonts when compiling with Xelatex. I am aware of three types of fonts - mainfont which applies to the main text in paragraphs, monofont which applies ...
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Badly formed hyperref link boxes when using certain fonts with fontspec in XeLaTeX
Question: How to use fontspec fonts so that hyperref boxes are well formed and not too high?
Solved: I don't know why but adding Extension=.ttf inside setmainfont options solves this.
What I expected: ...
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Windows/Unix Xelatex font usage with fontspec and ttf fonts semi-bold weight
I'm trying to write a file, that compiles both on windows and unix (I'm using the alpine-tinytex image, but the answer should be portable across *nix).
I would like to use the semi-bold fontface of ...
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R Markdown LaTeX Tufte font cannot be found
I'm new to getting LaTeX working in R Markdown and have the following error when I tried to knit the tufte template from github:
! Package fontspec Error: The font "Kaiti SC" cannot be found....
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How to get CMU small caps as a separate font?
CMU bold small capitals work for me with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} but not with \usepackage{fontspec}. Is there a way to get a separate CMU font that only has small capitals? When I buy fonts they come ...
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Problem placing numbers after Vedic accents in Tamil
I am having a problem placing a number after a vedic accent in Tamil. The minimum map file is
**********************************************************************
LHSName "tamv"
RHSName &...
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Minion Pro + fontspec = very strange kerning
I have an MWE, mostly derived from this answer:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[
UprightFeatures={
SizeFeatures={
{Size={-8.4},Font=MinionPro-Capt},
...
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Foreign-Language support in \part, \Section, etc
I have a document with a lot of different languages, some of which appear in \part{}, \section{}, etc. blocks. For example, the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{scrbook}
\...
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how can I change an arbitrary portion of my document to monospaced/typewriter font in xetex?
I want to put arbitrary portions of my text into a font that looks like it came out of a 1960s manual typewriter. In particular, each character must occupy a column, identical in width to all other ...
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Chinese text in English scrbook with luatexja-fontspec and polyglossia
I have the following document:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\makeatletter
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{luacode}
%\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\usepackage{...
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Straight quote literals when using LuaTeX and fontspec
This is a similar question to How to get straight quotation marks?, but in my case, I want literal ' and " marks to stay that way, as I use Unicode curly quotes when I want curly quotes. Is there ...
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Access and use $HOME environment for setting the path for a new font
I want to use a font I just downloaded for a document class I created. This document class will be used on other workstations so I would like the path of the font not to be "hardcoded" but ...
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Problem with Cyrillic in resume with XeLaTeX and fontspec
So I'm fairly new to TeX but managed to make myself a decent resume using quite a well-known Deedy-Resume template. I use overleaf to complie my .tex code into pdfs. I all worked fine enough until one ...
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Change font in my document-class [closed]
I created a new documentclass that is based on the \documentclass{article} . I would like to use the font Barlow that I just downloaded. I use the package fontspec and the compiler XeLaTeX.
When I ...
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Adding random padding/rotation into texts so it gives it a handwriting feel
The image above is of an handwriting example, it shows the random font size and the random padding/rotation between them.
The image above is an example of a LaTeX generated texts.
How can I make my ...
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Randomly reusing a custom font for the same letters (On first iteration use custom font no 1, on second iteration use custom font no 2, and so on)
I have some custom fonts that I have imported to my Font Book (I am using a macOS machine and am using XeTeX).
I can import those custom fonts with the answer written in Package for changing font with ...
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Adobe Reader cannot extract embedded font New Computer Modern
When I create a PDF using the newcomputermodern font and try to open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, I get following error message, and some characters will not be displayed:
Cannot extract embedded ...
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Wrong font in section/subsection [duplicate]
Im using fontspec to have Arial in my scrartcl -document. For some reason this Arial is not applied to sectiontitle/subsectiontitle. Compiling with Xelatex
\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
%%%%%%%%%%...
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Sans serif symbols in XeLaTeX
I want to introduce a family of sans serif symbols using the TeX Gyre Heros italic font.
I have only managed to use the upright font, How do I achieve this with the italic font?
\documentclass{article}...
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LuaLaTeX, Vollkorn and Math Symbols
A similar question was asked a few years ago here but since then, Vollkorn claims to have included support for a variety of math symbols, greek letters, and others. I have tried to use the .otf files ...
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Adobe Acrobat cannot extract embedded font FiraMath
When I create a pdf using Fira Math Regular as the math font I get the error
Cannot extract embedded font 'SBTYLT+FiraMathRegular'. Some characters may not display or print correctly
In my example ...
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miktex does not find STIX2Math.otf font
latest updated MiKTex does return:
e:\miktex-portable\texmfs\data\miktex\log\miktex-maketfm.log
! Font TU/STIX2Math.otf(1)/m/n/12=[STIX2Math.otf]/OT at 12.0pt not loadable: Me
tric (TFM) file or ...
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Using degree symbol with lualatex and mathdesign package
I started writing my thesis with pdflatex, since this is what the template used. But I have some large tables, which just barely do not fit. By reducing the font size they become a bit small, still ...
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Adding unicode (Cherokee) characters in Latex? [duplicate]
Most of my Latex is in regular English, but there are a couple of lines of Cherokee here and there that I want to include. What packages do I need to install? I tried playing around with fontspec and ...
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Trying to understand the interaction between baskervillef and fontspec
My high level goal is to get a good, free Baskerville font working that supports smallcaps and "rare" ligatures. I have achieved this, apart from rare ligatures, using the baskervillef ...
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urlstyle, urlfont and newfontfamily interaction
I'm using XeLaTeX and fontspec. I want to change the font (to the courier font) that is shown when using \url.
I don't understand why "\renewcommand\UrlFont{\courierfont}" works but "\...
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Custom font does not support numbers in math mode
I was trying to change fonts in my document but run into some problems:
It seems that the custom font I am using does not support numbers (and symbols) in math mode and instead the default font is ...
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Set font for numbers in Polyglossia
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\englishfont{CMU Serif} % English font
\newfontfamily\thaifont[Script=Thai]{TH Sarabun New} % Thai font
\usepackage{...
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Find fontspec name for font lmr and increase its size in select portions of document
On my mac running OSX 11.0.1 and TeX Live 2020, I'm trying to find the fontspec-name for the default font used by latex so that I can increase the font size in some locations of my document.
By using ...
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After upgrade of texlive I cannot integrate Sanskrit fonts in Tufte book style anymore [closed]
After upgrading from a very old Version to Tex Live 2019/Debian I cannot render my "tufte style book" with Sanskrit fonts anymore. In the old version I was able to render with "Quick ...
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Multiple fonts in a numbered section heading with XeLaTeX and Hyperref
I'm trying to use XeLaTeX to build my document. I define sections containing two different fonts within the section command. I've managed to get this to work, but only when using the * version to ...
