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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How to increase the gap between only 2 columns in a tabular without skewing the centering?
The Problem
How to adjust the gap between just two columns in a tabular environment while automatically retaining the centering of headings?
I know the length columnsep is used to adjust the ...
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Include external plantuml file
I want to include an external .puml file and have the diagram generated.
My current approach does not work and I do not understand why.
Following I pasted what I think is relevant from my current ...
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Fira Mono is oblique not upright by default
I'm trying to use Fira Mono as my monospaced font, but when I compile my MWE (below) in XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX the font ends up in its oblique variant. What should I be doing differently?
\documentclass{...
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Minimal installation to get lualatex (via tlmgr)
I'd liked to be able to run lualatex with a minimal TeX Live installation using tlmgr.
I've tried to start installing scheme-minimal but then cannot find what I should add to have the lualatex binary....
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Use JetBrains Mono ligatures with fontspec and lstlisting environment
I would like to use JetBrains Mono font in my document, in order to write some code with lstlisting environment. I’m using lualatex and memoir class. I’m using TeX Live 2020 on Windows 10.
Is it ...
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Use JetBrains Mono ligatures in a document (LuaLaTeX)
I would like to use JetBrains Mono font in my document, in order to write some code. I’m using TeX Live 2020 on Windows 10, and I’m using lualatex and memoir class.
Is it possible to use JetBrains ...
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Matlab2tikz - TeX Capacity Exceeded - Trying to Run `lualatex` Command
I have been creating vector graphics with the matlab2tikz tool and got the error message ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000]. As I found out on the matlab2tikz github page page I ...
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Fontspec: Copy of sans-serif font with different WordSpace
I'm trying to define a copy of my default sans-serif font, but with a different inter word spacing.
However, simply defining this font family changes \sffamily's inter word spacing if both families ...
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tufte: cannot externalize more than 1 graph
This seems to be strange combination of tufte-book and the graphing library. I am note able to externalize more than 1 graph and I cannot see why.
% !TeX program = lualatex
\documentclass{tufte-book}
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Luatex1.12: arabic with Babel, fontspec and Renderer HarfBuzz
As a follow up of my previous post I tried now little bit with the current version of texlive. I test with texlive2020
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[bidi=basic]{babel}
\...
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luamplib with animate: drawing glyphs stepwise
I'm trying to combine two ideas and have the Metapost code inside TeX via the luampcode package:
working animation inside TeX (Part 1 below): https://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/luatex/luamplibAnimate/
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Why this error shows up in this example? ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line
I do not see why this error shows up in this example below.
When putting \iffalse to comment a section out, which has \cprotect around it, I get an error. When removing \iffalse, the error goes away....
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Some characters have strange behaviour in listings with lualatex
The following MCE points out that some characters (for instance €, → or ←) have strange behavior (shifted on the left) in listings with lualatex (up to date TeX Live 2020). Do you know why?
\...
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how to add newline when printing to console in luacode function?
I'd like to print to the console (not back to latex) from inside luacode function.
But I am not able to figure how to do it. When I add \n it does not like it. I am using print from inside lua to ...
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LuaLaTeX: How to include a generated file size in document?
How to include a generated file size in document with LuaLaTeX? Similar question was answered, but for pdflatex case here. The solution does not work with LuaLaTeX.
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lualatex.fmt is missing
On a fresh ubuntu texlive installation a compilation with lualatex gives the error that lualatex.fmt can not be found:
> lualatex document.tex
This is LuaTeX, Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019/...
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How can I rewrite these conditionals effectively?
I'm working on modernizing and adapting an old LuaLaTeX template made for exams and other university documents. The thing is, the document is full of conditionals like these:
\newcommand{\showMarks}{...
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luatex 1.12.0 and babel
On my system (Linux 5.6.14-arch1-1) the following compiles fine with pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dutch]{babel}
\begin{document}
Hallo
\end{...
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Lualatex and fontspec - Compile to DOCX
I've written a thing in LaTeX that I need to submit as a docx or doc file. I have a font that I specified with
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{ FONT }
If I pandoc assignment.tex -o assignment....
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Include file contents into LaTeX on the same line
I'm trying to generate a pdf file where a certain part contains user input. I want it to be put one the same line, with the same font, and without special characters messing up the parsing. I thought ...
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How to call up characters of a font by their unicode number
I have a font here and I changed some letters with Fontforge.
I used the following code to call up the font.
What I should know:
How can I use the Unicode number instead of typing A or B or C, e.g. \...
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Centering UML diagrams in MetaUML
I'm using LuaTex to draw some UML diagrams in MetaUML. The diagrams appear left align in the page. How do I center them?
I tried \centering before the mplibcode environment and also tried enclosing ...
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Does luahbtex with HarfBuzz renderer completely supports math formating?
I am currently trying the new HarfBuzz renderer in TeXLive 2020 (using LuaHBTeX v. 1.12.0) with the STIX2 set of (serif/math) fonts.
Rendering seems alright with my main font (and I can confirm mode=...
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LuaLateX callback for linebrea. use this within editor to represent line like in pdf [duplicate]
LuaLateX is able to run custom code and attach it to callback, in particular it
could discover line break, receiving a list of hlist that compose a line of text.
I'm not an expert at all, but I was ...
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trouble matching %s in LuaTeX argument containing LaTeX command
I hope I can communicate this clearly. I've been trying to pass an argument to a Lua function that contains LaTeX commands. Normally this works fine, but if Lua tries to match/sub %s within this ...
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luatex node library: replace glyph with hlist containing glyph
While trying to replace glyph node with a hlist containing the glyph I was expecting to see the same output on the line, but I see boxes overlap, and get a pdf backend warning. Here, the warning ...
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LuaTeX library loading on Windows
The LuaTeX documentation says the following:
Loading dynamic Lua libraries will fail if there are two Lua libraries
loaded at the same time (which will typically happen on win32, because
there ...
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Can't compile metapost files
I have been searching for a solution to this and I haven't found one. I have a tex file that uses metapost that compiles on one system but not on the other.
On the system that fails the log says:
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Is this a good way to change \section in document using luacode? Or could this be done using plain Latex macro?
I wanted to do simple thing. Change each \section to \cprotect\section in the whole document.
I could not figure out how to do it using latex macro. So I used lua
I'd like to ask if you think this ...
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luatex hlist node shift direction seems incorrect, what is the cleanest way to achieve pdf object translations (displacement)?
From the description of hlist nodes in luatex manual, its field 'shift' seems to be a vertical shift. But when I change it using post_linebreak_filter, it adds horizontal shift to hlist. This overleaf ...
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Installation of texlive fails while downloading luatex (checksums differ)
I installed texlive 2020 some time ago without any problems. While updating it some issue with luatex occured and luatex stopper working. So I uninstalled texlive and decided to reinstall it.
However, ...
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luatex node library: restore pdf transformation matrix to original state after adding pdf_setmatrix node
How can I restore back to the original pdf transformation matrix after changing it using pdf_setmatrix whatsit node? The restore node should work with vlist/hlist/word/glyph. Below is the complete ...
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How can lua help class or package authors?
I am maintaining a rather simple class for internal company use for myself and some collegues. Mostly simple stuff like including the logo, setting the paper formats, adjust the colors, set headers ...
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Using */ and /** as code block fences with the markdown package
I have written a program in a style close to literate programming. The program source code contains large chunks of Markdown blocks in block comments like this.
/**
## Entities, state variables, and ...
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Integral sign is too small
When using math mode the integral sign appears always like in inline math mode and does not stretch to the proper size, like this
and even adding \displaystyle before the integral does nothing. I am ...
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The precompilation with mylatexformat of a beamer document with lualatex fails
To speed up the LuaLaTeX compilation process of my beamer file, I tried, to no avail, to use mylatexformat like I usually do with pdfLaTeX. I am using the following MWE, called beamer.tex.
\...
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How to use lyLuaTeX?
I am trying to use lyLuaTeX but it is not working. I've read the documentation but I don't understand how to get it to work.
I am on Windows 10, using TeX Live (first comment). Here is what I am ...
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Inserting symbols with fontspec => Missing number, treated as zero
I'm attempting to insert the arrow and thick hyphen symbols ‣ and ⁃, U+2023 and U+2043 respectively, into my document. I tried compiling the following with lualatex:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Problem using Thai script with Babel and FreeSerif typeface
The following code with compiles with a warning on Windows 10 using LuaLatex although produces a readable document.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\babelprovide[main, import]{thai}
\...
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Greek alphabet: tonos and oxia
I have a font that includes the Greek alphabet where monotonic glyphs have slightly different accents from polytonic ones.
When I compose with Lualatex in polytonic, however, the "double" glyphs are ...
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Why is there no XeLaTeX support for arXiv? [closed]
I would like to address an issue here that matters a lot to me that is: Why do the arXiv admins not consider to introduce an option to submit XeLaTeX generated PDFs? Or in a broader sense: non ...
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Error inserting pdf_tex from inscape with lualatex, “Missing \endcsname inserted”
I am using this preamble as a template PomonaLgcsFormatting.tex:
%%% This file is the preamble for the Pomona Linguistics LaTeX Paper Template, which is also used for the Quick Reference Guide. If ...
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Some fontawesome5 icons not working in LaTeX
I'm trying to use fontawesome5 package in LaTeX. Here is my code:
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome5}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\faKey
\faOrcid
\end{...
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How to force the long ſ to be rendered as s in LuaLaTeX?
I am trying o typeset a few of the fairy tales my daughter likes so much. Since they aren't copyrighted anymore, I am reproducing a short one here. Suppose I have the following source file:
\...
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Lualatex Tikz externalize error in scrartcle class
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\tikzexternalize
\tikzset{external/system call={lualatex \tikzexternalcheckshellescape -halt-on-...
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Table of Contents numbers (but not hyperlinks?) go off-track
I’m creating a book in lualatex, and I’m finding that after a few chapters the Table of Contents page numbers are one more than the actual page of the chapter/section they reference. After another ...
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LuaTeX's new_(node)inspection function
I was trying to test the piTeX macros on LuaTeX (required), but the base.ptxlua macro file complained about not finding a mysterious "nodeinspector" module, required to setup some french spacing. ...
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lualatex 1.12 compatibilty with newcommand and arabluatex
I upgraded to the new lualatex 1.12 and it seems that I have problems with the combination of different packages and lualatex.
I tried to follow this implementation for underlining. But somehow the ...
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illegal character in array
have a table like below with a custom width, but i can not run it, any ideas? many thanks in advance
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\...
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text size does not match
have a table.like.this
\begin{table}[ht]
\normalsize
\centering
\caption{Most Citated Countries}
\label{tab:Most-Citated-Countries}
\begin{tabular}{rlrrrrrrrl}
\hline
& Country & Articles ...
