Questions tagged [fontspec]
{fontspec} is a package for loading {opentype} fonts in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.
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realscripts – can fakescripts substitute single missing chars
I have a font with real OT-superscripts which I can use easily with the realscripts-package. But I also need a superscript decimal dot which doesn't exist, thus realscripts falls back to the regular ...
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Fallback for mathcal unicode characters in lualatex with proper height
Very few monospace fonts support unicode characters like U+1D4AA (Mathematical Script Capital O). I'm using DejaVu Sans Mono, and I'd like to define a fallback. Right now I have this:
\documentclass{...
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fontspec \setmainfont overrides other font families
It seems that the use of fontspec's \setmainfont is overriding other font families. Is that the expected behavior?
Should I use instead \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}?
A MWE follows below:...
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fontspec and makecmds.sty, re: polyglossia
Can someone explain to me in layman's terms what fontspec is? And is it needed by polyglossia?
Thanks
Bonus points: "makecmds.sty not found". Why?
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LuaLaTeX with babel/hebrew wants etex-extensions
Using texlive 2017 (same with texlive 2019), when i try to run the following minimal tex file (Hebrew font is https://www.sbl-site.org/educational/biblicalfonts.aspx; default font is Adobe's Minion ...
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Fontspec loads letter sizes, but not the letter shapes
I'm trying to use the fontspec package to use the P22 Hopper Edward font.
In all other software, this looks wonderful:
But while LaTeX throws no errors, the font looks wrong: the letter shapes aren'...
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How to write an English - Urdu mixed document in latex?
I am writing a document mainly in English but with words and sometimes sentences and paragraphs in Urdu - how do I do it in latex? Similarly if I am writing a document mainly in Urdu but with words, ...
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How do I set the Verbatim font (or the mono font) to bold by default?
I'm using the fancyvrb package and the Verbatim (with an uppercase V) environment. However, the font I'm using is to light for my taste, so I'd like to make it bold without having to write \textbf{} ...
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Overleaf and Section Fonts
Oveleaf say that it's possible to use a set of pre-installed fonts
here. One of these is "CMU Classical Serif" I want to change the section title in my document to be "CMU Classical Serif"
I try ...
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Bangla breaks apart with lualatex!
I switched to lualatex for coloring part of Arabic words easily with arabluatex and xcolor. With xelatex I'd no problem with Bangla.
Here's the latex script:
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{...
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Trying to find out the font style [duplicate]
I’d like you to tell me the font the the person who wrote what’s in the picture
, is using:
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Why using this settings i am not getting a proper thesis like font?
\documentclass[a412pt]{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\doublespacing
\BeforeBeginEnvironment{split}{\linespread{1}\selectfont}{}{}
\newcommand\etc{{\sl etc\/...
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TeXLive 2019 and Libertine: OpenType feature warnings
Since I upgraded to TL2019, I get a lot of opentype feature warnings. For example for
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{libertine,fontspec}
\begin{document}
ads
\end{document}
I get
OpenType ...
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Set font with setmainfont to something other than regular and use textbf
I have a font which comes in many different styles. Ive got
Light
Medium
Regular
Bold
Thin
....
Now i would like to choose the "Light" version as main font for my document.
I have done that with
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Unicode characters not appearing: 𐌈 𐍈 ט 𐤈 ط
I'm attempting to get the following line to compile in XeLaTex:
The letter 𐌈 (also written 𐍈 , ט, 𐤈, ط , or þ)
All but ט and þ do not appear when compiling with XeLaTex using the following ...
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Use typewriter package with fontspec
I would like to use the typewriter package along with another font. I tried to do that with the fontspec package. I wouldn't mind to use the Latin Modern font. However, the style of the font remains ...
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Set a relative search path for fontspec within a package (.sty file)
I have a small .sty file for beamer, where I need to specify a particular title font (that's a TTF file). I can do this thus:
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily{\WellcomeBold}[Path=fonts/]{...
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Latex Font Warning While Writing Urdu
I am trying to write urdu in latex but i am getting these warnings in latex
fontspec error: "font-not-found" The font "Scheherazade" cannot be found. For immediate help type H <return>.
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LuaLatex, how to use calibri font even in math mode?
I'm writing a letter in LuaLatex using the calibri font. To set up I use these commands:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{calibri}[Ligatures=TeX,
SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps,LetterSpace=...
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Font issue with legacy 8-bit fonts + fontspec
Some kind souls mentioned in some of my past questions that my using \usepackage{fontspec} is wrong. One of them suggested that I use \setmainfont[Scale=1.0, Ligatures={Common, Rare, TeX}]{Palatino ...
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Fandol with LuaTeX
The next release of babel will provide basic line breaking for CJK with luatex. When I was making some experiments I discovered an odd and puzzling behaviour in the Fandol family. The file is:
\...
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Loading a custom `mathastext` font causes minus symbols to disappear
I use mathastext to customize my math font and its symbols. However, when using it, the minus sign no longer appears.
One answer is to use \ang command for the angle. This works only if we put use a ...
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Forcing Fontspec to find a specific instance of a font where several exist
I have been struggling to find the answer to this one. Let's suppose my system (and indeed my TexLive distro) has multiple different versions of a font with a specific name. Say
ffftusj.ttf
I want ...
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XeLaTeX typesets characters in some Lato fonts on top of each other
When I try to use the Lato-Regular ttf font and Lato-Bold ttf font XeLaTeX produces a pdf in which some of the characters are set on top of each other, but when using eg. Lato-Italic, Lato-BoldItalic, ...
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Font switching for defined parts of document
I am lost in a maze of little twisty Fonts, all different.
I need to use a different face (font family) for small portions of my novel, possibly retaining possibility to use bold/italic modifiers.
I ...
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Difficulty accessing OpenType ligatures with LuaLaTex and fontspec
I’ve been trying to use Greek ligatures with the font Alfios in the version available here. In particular, I’m trying to get the o-u ligature as can be seen in the image — that I get from MS Word.
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Fontspec compilation error with MacTeX-2018
Fontspec (and several other packages) were not working. I reinstalled MacTeX-2018, but the same errors keep coming up (see below). l3kernel & l3packages are both installed. All packages on TeX ...
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Using different fonts for multiple languages in Overleaf
I'm using Twenty Seconds Resume template in overleaf https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/twenty-seconds-resume-slash-cv/mhyfwrmwjkbc
But I met a problem and I can't solve it after trying for ...
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Disabling specific ligatures fontspec
I made changes to something in an (English language) .tex file and discovered all my ss now exported as ß. After some debugging in my version control, there was no clear culprit to undo (maybe a font ...
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Apostrophe height in small caps with a special font
Using lualatex and fontspec with a special Garamond font.
The font I use has two versions of the apostrophe: a normal high and a low small caps one.
The problem occurs using small caps feature, ...
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Fonts FontAwesome and Fira not found after fresh installation of MacTeX
I try to build the examples of the limecv package after a fresh installation of MacTeX 2018 under macOS Mojave. The package requires the fonts FontAwesome and Fira which are both installed on my ...
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Coloring maths inside a tcolorbox
My TeX level isn't the greatest, I am trying hard to improve but I am always struggling.
I would like to change the color of text inside a tcolorbox and that this color formatting survives a ...
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Adjusting font size
Currently using a template from my university that uses this to define font:
\def\titlefont{\rmfamily}
AND
\setsansfont[
Path = fonts/,
Extension = .ttf,
BoldFont = *-Bold,
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IEEEtran: Getting fonts “right” with lualatex
I know that IEEEtran is basically pdflatex only.
However, I would prefer using lualatex but it gives me a couple of font warnings for this snippet:
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
%\usepackage[...
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fontspec won't load font when using extsizes
I'm having trouble using extsizes to increase the font size options for a font loaded with fontspec. My example document:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Chaparral ...
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`Package fontspec Warning: Font XXX does not contain requested Script “CJK”`, but visually it does
I have below warning in LuaLaTeX/ltjsarticle project:
Package fontspec Warning: Font "fonts/HGS_Mincho/HGRMB.ttc" does not contain
requested Script "CJK".
I dot't know about Chinese and Korean, but ...
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How I can resolve `Font shape `xxx/it' undefined` warning for CJK in LuaLaTeX?
Below CJK-contains code compiles without errors however with warnings.
\documentclass[a4paper, twoside]{ltjsarticle}
\usepackage{luatexja-fontspec}
\usepackage[abspath]{currfile}
\setmainjfont[
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How to set a font everywhere (including math mode) in XeLaTeX?
My requirements are:
Use Calibri as the main font. This is easy with XeLaTeX.
Use Calibri as the math font. Also quite easy using e.g. mathspec. But this takes care only of letters and numbers.
Use ...
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fontspec package conflicts with \textbf and \textit and \textsc
I have used fontspec package along with different packages to use some diacs such as ʾ ı ā ū, but when I use \textit or textbf, they do not function. When I deactivate the fontspec package, everything ...
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Unable to supress ligatures in headings which are set in Caps
I am aware that similar questions have been asked a few times. However, none of the answers solved my problem. This Answer says that it is a bug in luaotfload. But I'm already using a newer version (2....
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Fontspec:addfontfeature LetterSpace operation
I need to use letter-spacing on words inside paragraphs. I made some experiments with fontspec and the LetterSpace feature.
While the rendering seems to be correct, I observed that on some ...
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Fontspec and Microsoft Store fonts on Windows 10
As of April 2018, Windows 10 now installs some fonts through the Microsoft Store or Microsoft Office. These fonts are not installed in the usual font folder C:\Windows\Fonts, but instead in protected ...
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Glyph alternation issues with Junicode
I've got an issue with a specific glyph alternation in Junicode---namely, the italic k has a particular variant before i that I find not particularly attractive. You can see in the image here how it's ...
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Reledmac compiling with empty footnotes due to \numberlinefalse command
I have been working on this project for at least 4 years; I left it alone for maybe the past 2 years, and when I tried to compile it again after updating all my latex packages, the footnotes in ...
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Fontspec isn't changing digits in math mode
I had been using the following in my preamble:
\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage[lite,subscriptcorrection,zswash,slantedGreek,nofontinfo]{mtpro2}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={...
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Changing Typeface of Part
How do you change the typeface used for the part environment to an Opentype font?
(In the MWE below, I've used a TrueType font, but the method should be the same).
It appears the standard titlesec ...
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Polyglossia - Italic in Hebrew
I am new to LaTeX and I just strated to use Polyglossia to write Hebrew documents. When I try to write text in italic, it just produces the same text style. For example
\documentclass{article}
\...
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What is the least resource intensive way to generate the luatex font cache for a new font?
When a font is first used with lualatex, luaotfload does some magic to produce font cache files.
For large fonts (e.g., Noto Sans CJK) this can take a lot of time and a lot of memory.
I have an old ...
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Set Path for *.fontspec file
According to Section 2.3 of the fontspec documentation it is possible to select a font by creating a file like ⟨fontname⟩.fontspec.
Does this file always has to be in the root of the document or could ...
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MikTex issue using ClearSans with XeLatex [closed]
I am running into some trouble trying to compile a document using the ClearSans font with XeLaTeX. I am running an up-to-date copy of MikTex, all packages have been updated yesterday. The following is ...
