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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get page number of \label in lualatex
I would like to get the integer value of \pageref{...} with lualatex. However, with token.get_macro(s), I've found that the agument must be a macro without an argument. See MWE:
\documentclass{article}...
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Reledpar paragraphed footnotes width within sized ledgroup
Background of the question
The goal is to typeset Greek fragments and their translations side-by-side. The style guide prescribes that the Greek should be set with a hanging indent of 8mm. The notes (...
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What does “invalid … object at offset …” upon including PDF graphics mean?
Feeding
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\includegraphics{included_file.pdf}
\end{document}
to xelatex, we get an expected PDF output but
invalid 13 0 R object at offset ...
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Switching from PDFLaTeX to LuaLaTeX [duplicate]
Code
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}
\usepackage{microtype}
\DisableLigatures[f]{...
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I am using Texlive on my Ubuntu Linux Dash and have problems creating a pdf [closed]
So, the way i think my University wants us to do this is by typing into bash: "lualatex Nameofdocument.tex". So i did this short .tex script just to test it out.
But this is where the ...
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adding letterspacing using luaotfload
The letterspace feature of luaotfload does not work in math mode. I tried to implement my own feature as follows:
\documentclass{minimal}
\directlua{
do
local function mathletterspace(tfmdata, ...
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Find error: Using Lualatex to print a table
I have 题 as a counter. I'm using LuaLaTeX and loaded the luacode package.
\newcommand{\scoretable}{
\directlua{
tex.print("\begin{tabular}{|c|")
for i=1,\the题 do
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Using synctex for forward/backward searching without jumping cursor on compilation in Texmaker
I like to use SyncTeX when editing files in Texmaker to do forward and backward searches.
However, right now, I'm writing a very long paper that requires me to make regular changes to the beginning of ...
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How to add support for another language (German) to the Words conversion in ConTeXt?
I would like to implement support for another language (German) for the conversion methods words and Words for converting numbers to words in ConTeXt. Having read the answers to this question I ...
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Why UM Typewriter font not working properly?
I compiled this code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted, fontspec}
\setmonofont{UM Typewriter} %% <--- some problems here (see the next comment). To solve comment it out.
\begin{document}...
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No ligatures in chapter
When changing from LuaLaTeX, This is LuaTeX Version 1.10.0 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) to This is LuaHBTeX, Version 1.14.0 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian) no ligatures are set in \chapter. Also a -- (double ...
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calendar.sty not compatible with LuaTeX - bold fonts are no longer bold
I am a long-time user of calendar.sty, however I am new to LuaTeX / LuaLaTeX.
I switched to LuaLaTeX so I could use Greek letters from the LuaLaTeX package unicode-math package (see link and link). ...
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Adobe Garamond Pro & ligatures
I need to use Adobe Garamond Pro on LaTeX to build an editorial layout. I installed the Adamond Garamond Pro font files (Regular, Bold, Italic, BoldItalic, SemiBold, SemiBoldItalic) on my computer (...
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Why à becomes ŕ in luatex with latin modern?
Running luatex (not lualatex) on a file with the following content:
\font\lmrten=cs-lmr10
\lmrten
à
\bye
outputs a PDF file containing a 'ŕ', not a 'à'.
Why?
And hox to fix it?
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How to install LuaMetaTeX to MikTeX on Windows 11?
On GitHub you can find the Plain and LaTeX format for LuaMetaTeX. I am a Plain LuaTeX user and would like to switch to Plain LuaMetaTeX for some reasons. Examples: unpacking the contents of \left and \...
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markdown in LaTeX causes compiling issue
A generated lua file for embedding markdown cannot be found during build process.
Hello I want to integrate a markdown file in my latex file. Firstly, I tried to run an example for it. However, the ...
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Expand command argument twice before passing to lua function (like \luastringO)
I would like to make a helper macro like luacode's \luastringO, but instead expand the arg twice instead of once. There is a bunch of \expandafter/\unexapnded\noexpand hackery that always seems to go ...
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luapstricks error
Consider the following non-MWE:
\documentclass[
a4paper,
landscape,
12pt
]{article}
\usepackage[margin = 2.4cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[version = 4]{mhchem}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\def\runding{0....
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How to bold face Devanagiri font when using LuaLaTeX? [closed]
When using LuaLaTeX with the following config for the Polyglossia package, the bold face of fonts doesn't render when using \textbf{}.
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{hindi}
\...
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LuaLaTeX and italic words in chapter title (sf)
I am using LuaLaTeX to load Futura as sans serif font for my document’s titles. Though, when I try to put my titles in italic, it doesn’t work, neither in the toc nor on the pages. It’s certainly a ...
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LuaLaTeX - tabularx - Why does this table not fit on the previous page?
It looks like there would be plenty enough space for the table to fit on the page before, where the subsubsection title of my document is.
By decreasing the arraystretch to around 1.15, it will fit on ...
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Bradley Hand Font in Math
Compiling with LuaLaTeX, use of Bradley Hand Font works for body and math using beamer;
but I would like to know how to render Bradley Hand font for math using standard Article style. -Thanks.
%\...
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Breaking lines resulting from \mintinline or \Verb
I have come to a point where I really need a way to have LaTeX automatically break lines formatted as inline listings. I'm using the package minted. Here's a minimal working example:
\documentclass{...
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hyperref Forms with serif font problem
I use LuaLaTeX.
This MWE works with sans-serif fonts, i.e. Calibri (on Windows)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\def\fntname{Calibri}
\setmainfont{\fntname}
\usepackage[pdfstartview = ...
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How to make opentype font in luatex latex work with unicode combining diacritical marks
We use s with caron
COMBINING CARON
U+030C
but also s with curved breve (curving up)
COMBINING BREVE
U+0306
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic
in a book we are typesetting with luatex using ...
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LuaTeX: How to slant, extend or embolden only some characters of a font, NOT the whole font?
In luaotfload we can slant, extend or embolden a whole font by writing something like \font\x="xxx.otf:+slant=a;+extend=b;+embolden=c" at d pt. But what can I do when I would like to apply ...
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How to manipulate selected letters in LuaTeX?
Please look at the following MWE:
\documentclass[20pt]{extarticle}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage{luacode}
%% Works: change width of 𝑓
\begin{luacode}
local function newwidth(tfmdata)
tfmdata....
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LuaLaTeX with siunitx, luainputenc and T1 fontenc produces an error
Error
I get the following error when compiling the MWE below with LuaLaTeX:
ERROR: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=10000].
--- TeX said ---
\curr@fontshape ->\f@encoding
...
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Redefining "part" style
I would like to redefine part style with LuaLatex:
(I have checked other answers here like this but it doesn't seem to fit my questions quite well: add parts to toc
can I optimize by redefining the &...
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Understanding how different TeX engines deal with fonts
I know very little about how TeX deals with fonts and I'm trying to learn more about it. I know that helper packages like fontspec exist in LaTeX, but I'm mainly interested in using and understanding ...
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Cabin Font, Microtype, and Lualatex Produce Smallcaps---but not with Tracking=True
In the following MWE, I am using Cabin as the main font and compiling with lualatex.
Remark: I do not believe that this is a duplicate with Smallcaps don't work if fontspec's microtype is used ...
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How to use the known weights of different breaking points in German words?
In https://repo.or.cz/wortliste.git/blob/HEAD:/wortliste (which is, in my opinion, the source of the current German hyphenation patterns used by [PDF|Xe|Lua]LaTeX with \babelprovide[hyphenrules=...
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Define categorized, changeable variables for use throughout a document
TL;DR
How do I print categorized and subcategorized values declared in a JSON file (or in some similar type of file) inside of a LaTeX document?
In my document, I am assigning a bunch of values to ...
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Lua substitution of double quotation mark
I'm playing with Lua substitutions and have realised I can't figure out how to escape quotation marks for double quotation marks (U+0022) and substitution code that works for every other character has ...
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Adding pdflatex and lualatex gnuplot graphing capabilities
I am using Windows 10 and TeXstudio (latest version) as TeX editor and TeXLive (if matters). In chapter 22.6 page 345 of tikz manual, version 3.1.9a is suggested for more powerful graphing engine to ...
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Confusion about unicode-math symbols w.r.t. math/text mode and format
Many math symbols defined by unicode-math either "work" in text mode or at least don't produce errors. For example, taking a representative sample from unicode-math-table.tex, the following ...
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Something is wrong with tikz graphdrawing
I wanted to see some isomorphisms of the Petersen graph; I took the code from here, and run with several layouts from here, but the result with tree layout is not isomorphic to the Petersen graph:
\...
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Setting latin modern sans as math font with luatex
This is the code I used with pdflatex
\DeclareMathVersion{sans}
% Math letters from Latin Modern Sans
\SetSymbolFont{letters}{sans}{OML}{cmbr}{m}{it}
% Math operators
\SetSymbolFont{operators}{sans}{...
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Using LuaTeX to automate \textcite vs. \nptextcite from biblatex-apa
According to the biblatex-apa documentation (section 4.1), APA dictates that citations inside parentheses should not contain extra parentheses. Therefore, it provides the command
\nptextcite[⟨prenote⟩...
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Microtypography status in LuaTeX
According to this table from the microtype manual, the current support of microtypography in the TeX engines is as follows:
Nevertheless, TeX.SX is full of LuaTeX workarounds in specific cases for ...
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Redirect tex.print output to a file
I want to redirect tex.print output to a file to collect and reuse the produced LaTeX material :
the mwe :
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
essai
\directlua{require("essai.lua")}
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LuaLaTeX - Table (tabularx) Can't get rid of underfull hbox (badness 10000)
Ok so I have tried various solutions to this problem and the ~10 underfull hbox warning have been reduced to 1. But this one's really sticky and I'm at my wit's end.
The warning is directed to the ...
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How to pass the content of a TeX variable to Lua without luastring and luacode?
I try to pass the content of a Tex variable to lua, but I don't use luacode. Is there a way to avoid it ?
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{pgfkeys}
%\pgfkeys{
% JobName/.code={\directlua{ ...
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Jake's resume cannot be compiled with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX
Jake's resume is a famous resume template, its link is https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs
I want to modify it for Chinese characters, for example, change \section{...
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How to change font from old pdflatex packages to new lualatex definitions
Lualatex allows to load fonts directly and without packages and other dependencies.
The problem I see is that the usage is well documented for pdflatex and the old style and not documented for ...
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Understanding implicit error on a recursive function
I was originally following the idea from Garrick Peschke
To import all .tex files inside a folder, but I want my Lua function to also search inside subfolders.
Unfortunately I can't make the Lua ...
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Newest version of luatexja interferes with vertical alignment of text
Today when I was compiling a document, I found that the header was mis-aligned. After a bit debugging, it seems to be the package luatexja (version 20220807) that is causing the problem. Below is a ...
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Dealing with curly braces in LuaLaTeX
I'm trying to generate a table with bolded text using a Lua snippet. Here's a minimal example.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\begin{...
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marginnote and framed - workaround fails with lualatex
I have this code in my 12 year old Tex files that I currently like to upgrade such that they work with lualatex. I load this code in order to fix a problem with marginnote and framed. Unfortunately I ...
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Error using fontspec/lualatex with italic IPA unicode symbol <ɻ> (retroflex approximant) [duplicate]
Using fontspec with lualatex, and Libertine as the font, I get an obvious misalignment whenever the IPA symbol for a retroflex approximant, <ɻ>, is used in italics, but only if it has other ...
