Questions tagged [luatex]
LuaTeX is a Unicode-capable extension of TeX which integrates the scripting language Lua. Use this tag if your question is about LuaTeX or LuaLaTeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX. For ConTeXt related questions use {context-mkiv}.
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Mixing Icelandic, German and Ukrainian glyphs in the same PDF
This is more or less a followup to a previous question which I asked with pdflatex in mind and regarding another document class (letter-classic).
Right now I am struggling to be able to mix German, ...
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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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Pandoc font family not changing
I tried to set the font family to Source Sans Pro, but pandoc gives me the following error:
pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable
fonts.
\AtBegShi@Output ......
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How to add compilation parameters -shell-escape with arara
I am having trouble using compiling argument
lualatex -shell-escape
as mentioned in this question
using arara. I cant get the right syntax, and I am failing to find it in arara user manual. I tryed ...
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How can I get LuaLaTeX to turn three hyphens into an em-dash? [duplicate]
For some reason, LuaLaTeX is outputting an en-dash for both -- and --- for me.
MWE:
test.tex:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
blah-blah
blah-...
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How to complete these side borders in Beamer? [duplicate]
There are some great answers here and here about the same issue but different code samples, in this case I am using a new package beamer-rlCTAN with last update of Babel package, it solves problems ...
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Automatical graph layout with high number of connections using TikZ package
While learning to work with LaTeX, I have found out (also in this question) that TikZ is able to create very good automatic graph layouts. In my work, I had assignment to create pretty large ...
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How use command \pdfextension in luacode enviroment of package luacode?
When i try compile,for example,this code in my document:
\begin{luacode}
\pdfextension literal direct{/Span <> BDC}
tex.print("my text")
\pdfextension literal direct{EMC}
\end{luacode}
,i have a ...
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LuaLatex and bidi (Hebrew/German)
Using polyglossia or babel/bidi with LuaLatex seems to cause different problems. In my case I am totally helpless. I need to use the \texthebrew and \RL commands, but I can't get it run.
Also, I don'...
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Feynman diagram: sides switched
In my t-channel Feynman diagram (with tikz-Feynman), the lower two particles of the t-channel are switched. It appears that for s-channel, the right hand side particles are switched too.
Code for t-...
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lualatex doesn't run when under www-data
we are using lualatex to produce some automatically generated documents on our webserver.
We do have an Ubuntu 18.04 based server, on which Nginx runs as webserver. Nginx does not run as root, but ...
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How to print data in pdf in callbacks?
Give me please at least one example that,how i can print some data in document in callbacks using pdf.print or help me please,how i can insert information in any part of document during callbacks? For ...
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Extension of `rotating` package to set PDF rotation
I am trying to extend the rotating package to also show the respective pages properly rotated in the PDF output by setting the PDF page attribute /Rotate. I have a working version for XeLaTeX, however,...
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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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How to accurately set the font size for different lines?
I need to create the cover page for my thesis.
The university provides the specifications like this:
‐ Univerity logo.
‐ Faculty name: Palatino Lynotipe, 16pt, capitalized.
‐ Department: Palatino ...
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Error during using callback start_page_number in lualatex
I updated miktex and all packages and now i have an error,when i try use callback start_page_number in my document. The error appeared even in very small document,for example in this document:
\...
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What callbacks i must to register,to catch start and end of paragraf and any other structures in lualatex
Help me please,what callbacks i must register to catch starting and ending of structures in lualatex such as paragrafs,lists,items of lists,tables,sections,subsections,sub...subsections,ETC. How i can ...
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semantic package: Floating premises with nested \inference
I am typing setting some big step semantics using the package semantic and its command \inference.
I use the LuaLaTeX compiler.
However, when I compose more inference commands, and one of them ...
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Microtype package produces warning when using LuaTex
I am receiving the following warning message whenever I include microtype:
Module microtype Warning: overwriting function `keepligature' on input line 59
Here is a minimum working example:
\...
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Building a token list in lua
In TeX, a 'write' node is inserted with, say:
\write1{\string\doit{\the\lastypos}}
With pure luatex, a node could be created with:
local n = node.new(8, 1)
n.stream = 1
n.data = <token-list>
...
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Unicode glyph not displaying in LuaTeX [duplicate]
I need to use some unicode glyphs relating to greek metric, namely ⎯ ⏑ ⏒ ⏓ ⏔ ⏕ ⏖, but I can't make them display on the document.
I've got
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
...
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How to print mathematical object in text mode in lualatex?
In one of the callbacks of lualatex in lua (build_filter) i print the first argument of function.
\begin{luacode}
function f(a)
tex.print(a)
end
luatexbase.add_to_callback("buildpage_filter",f,"...
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How to register callbacks in lualatex
Help me please,how i can register callbacks in lualatex. For example it need to me catch,when the page of my document started or ended and print number of this page*2. I found in luatex documentation ...
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Greek letters wiith continuing circumflex
I've noticed that LuaTeX seems to incorrectly render continuing characters (like a circumflex, U+0302) when they follow Greek letters. I'm particularly interested in getting this to work with a ...
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how create new command with formated string
When i try create new command,which contains formatted string, I get an error:
\directlua]:1: unfinished string near <eof>.
Help me please fixed my error. this is a code of my document and ...
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How can I use math.log10 function with the directlua?
I would like to know how I can use math.log10 function with the directlua, because I always get none from directlua.
Following a minimal example:
%Engine: LuaLaTeX;
%Encoding: UTF-8;
\documentclass[...
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“Simple table” with differing alignments
I am facing an issues with tables.
Currently my MWE looks like this:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[left=2.50cm, right=2.50cm, top=2.50cm, bottom=2.00cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{...
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luajittex ignores fonts luatex finds
With LuajitTeX, Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019) and ConTeXt ver: 2019.02.26 20:04 MKIV beta fmt: 2019.3.1 I can run the following MWE:
\setupbodyfont[postscript,sans,12pt]
\starttext
Test
\stoptext
...
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issue on lualatex and mongo
I have an issue with lualatex and mongo
% !config
% arara: lualatex :{shell : yes , synctex : yes}
% arara : tikzmake :{ jobs : 1, force : yes}
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{Bibles}
\...
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LuaTeX and em dashes
LuaLaTeX is not inserting em dashes unless there is space around the triple dash.
It works fine when using a unicode em dash, or explicitly using the \textemdash macro.
Here is a MWE:
\documentclass{...
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miktex: forest tex capacity exceeded [save size=50000]
this is follows-up question to forest tex capacity exceeded [save size=50000] which receive two answers. both solve op problem with suggestion to upgrade op latex distribution to texlive 2018.
i ...
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Create an environment to translate sentences
I'm trying to create a command to use when I need to translate the language or make examples to both languages. So far I have created a box around the text and two columns, one for each language.
\...
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microtype error with lualatex: “attempt to call field warning a nil value”
no answer needed, I'm adding the question as reference
After todays update of luaotfload microtype gives an error when used with lualatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{...
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how to tell if I am using XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX or pdfTex? What exactly are? [duplicate]
I have installed LaTeX on Ubuntu 18.04 using
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
How can I tell if I am using XeLaTex, LuaLaTeX or pdfLaTeX?
What are they exactly?
I edit my tex files with the ...
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Indextools package and custom index. (Section and any counter)
My problem is that I need to create a custom index that shows more than the page.
Like this: Word, s.5,o.6,p.9 , where s. is section, o. a dummy counter, and p. page.
My MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\...
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Is there a standard way to assert the engine used or similar and cause an error otherwise?
Is there something analogous to the assert command offered by various programming languages to assert certain conditions?
In particular I am looking for a way to outfit my .tex files with assertions ...
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fontspec no-math option changes the math bold alphabet
I have a setup that works well with pdflatex and that I would like to carry it over to xelatex or lualatex, but fontspec seems to be changing the math-bold alphabet -- even if called with the [no-math]...
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Different fonts inside and outside math-mode
When processing the simple file:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
1234567890
$1234567890$
\end{document}
with pdflatex one get a PDF with one font only (CMR10), but when processing with ...
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Manually sort entries without glossaries-extra package
since none of my issues could be solved yet
( Define special sorting for Lualatex glossaries in Japanese? )
( Bib2Gls doesn't compile CJK characters correctly ) and I won't be able to turn in my ...
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Very common question: Feynman Diagrams in LaTeX
I know about a lot of solutions how to draw Feynman diagrams in LaTeX. Unfortunately, noone of them is perfect. I know about TikZ-Feynman and it is the best variant (may be) but I do not understand ...
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Luatex and system luarocks mismatch problem
I've been working on using lua to read a yaml file and print out a nice latex table but I've hit a snag. My lua code uses lyaml installed using luarocks, but luarocks only sees my system lua, which is ...
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ℕ goes as N into the text layer?
Let's compile the following code with {xe|lua}atex:
\documentclass{standalone}% or article, doesn't matter
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{TeX Gyre Termes Math}%% or TeX Gyre Pagella Math, ...
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microtype: \texls has no effect
I use microtype's \textls in combination with fontspec to change the tracking of text, and until recently, this worked as it should. Recently, it seems to have stopped to work with fonts other than ...
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Disable smart (contextual) quotes for entire document?
Is it possible to disable smart (contextual) quotes for an entire document? If yes, how?
In particular, can the single quote ', double quote ", and backtick ` be left as-is by some option or method ...
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Endless compilations when SourceCodePro is loaded, target PDF absent but aux file present
For some time now I witnessed latexmk compiling my documents 5 times in a row. I thought that was because I was doing very complicated things with beamer.
But consider the following code :
\...
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Which libraries are available via ffi for texlive luatex with no other installation?
Recent versions of luatex (≥ 1.0.3) come with ffi. That means that one can call a C library from lua inside a TeX file. Some (very) recent examples on TeX.sx have proven its power.
Assuming current ...
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remove “./” of “\currfileabspath” when using lualatex
I have a small problem with the package currfile and the command \currfileabspath. When compiling the file using (pdf|xe)latex I get the expected result, but if I use lualatex it adds ./ to the ...
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LuaLateX vs XeLaTex Myriad
When I typeset this code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\setsansfont{MyriadPro-BoldSemiCn}
\sffamily
Hello world !
\setsansfont{Myriad Pro}
\sffamily
{\bfseries ...
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luatodonotes package: note appears in Todo list, but not shown in the text
Using LuaLaTeX and the luatodonotes package, I can't see any of the notes I added by \todo{}. Nevertheless they are shown in the Todo list. Other features of the package, like the \missingfigure{}, ...
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Redefining standard font size commands when using LuaLaTeX and fontspec
How can I redefine the standard font size commands (\small, \normalsize, \large, etc.) when using LuaLaTeX and fontspec?
From what I read after searching online, I did the following:
\documentclass{...
