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 use OpenType Latin Modern Roman in \mathrm?
Running the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Test $\mathrm{VARfi}$
\end{document}
using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, I observed that Test was rendered in OpenType Latin Modern Roman ...
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Example of using save_pos subtype (luatex)
Luatex manual mention save_pos (page 136) a subtype of whatsit node, Is there anyone who can give us a simple example of its use with lualatex.
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koma script causes new error after update texlive 2019 in Oct 15
After the new LaTeX2e <2019-10-01> version, I got this error:
! Package filehook Error: Detected 'scrlfile' package with unknown
definition o f \InputIfFileExists.
It seems related with ...
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How to obtain the effect of \XeTeXlinebreaklocale “zh” without xetex or luatex [on hold]
Now I use TexPadtex to compile my tex files for the real time preview feature. Unfortunately it doesn't support xelatex or lualatex engine. So I have some trouble when I compile a Chinese document. ...
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How to write pdf object directly in PDF and get number of this object via LaTeX or expl3?
via Lua I can write an object directly in PDF and use it:
local num = pdf.immediateobj("stream", "\\(a^2+b^2=c^2\\)", "/Type /SomeType /Subtype /SomeSubtype")
How can I do the same via expl3 or ...
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Missing Hebrew vowels in LuaLaTeX
Since I had some annoying warnings with XeLaTeX and Polyglossia, I tried my luck with LuaLaTeX. Unfortunately Polyglossia simply returns a complaint in a warning:
Package polyglossia Warning: Hebrew ...
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Files not found because of \endlinechar (space) character
A recent MikTeX update broke some code that I'm using. I have many files filled with filenames, the code reads these filenames, and then does some stuff with the contents of the corresponding file. ...
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Once and for all: Produce PDF/X-1a:2001 (with lualatex, without pdfx package)
I've been going crazy browsing the internet for an ultimate, easy, straightforward, up-to-date answer (possibly hoping to find some switch for the lualatex command). I also checked the LaTeX 2e manual ...
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How to highlight / uncover / connect by paths step by step various parts of math formulas blended with text?
I wrote the following code, that works, and approximately do the job. But it suffers from many flaws, I evaluate it as ugly, and would like to receive some advices on how to do same things the right ...
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Compile using only one command
Actually I need several commands to compile my Latex document:
lualatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error main
biber main
makeindex main
makeindex -s main.ist -t main.alg -o main.acr ...
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Why does running LuaLaTeX from the command line not produce the same aux files as building from Sublime Text?
I'm trying to automate a LaTeX build and one step in my workflow is invoking LuaLaTeX from the command line like so:
lualatex example.tex
Although running this command outputs a PDF as required, it ...
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Inserting _any_ unicode character in Latex document
I am totally new to XeLaTex and LuaLaTex, but I have read that both allow to write LaTeX documents in UTF-8.
That actually works for some unicode characters, but not for all.
See the following ...
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How to Stretch Font Vertically—INLINE—without \scalebox?
Closely Related:
Stretching text vertically
Is it possible to stretch a font vertically—INLINE—without using \scalebox?
For example, I would like to have a paragraph with italicized text, or small ...
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Wrong symbols with STIX2 and LuaLaTeX
I have problems with typesetting math symbols using stix2 fonts. Actually, I want to have \mathbfscr letters, this is the only reason why I need stix2. Simulateously, I need Times New Roman and Arial ...
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My system can't find installed otf and ttf fonts
I have texlive 2019 on windows 10 OS, I tried several times to install True Type Font or Open Type Font and after installation my system couldn't find them (the problem did not occur with my previous ...
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Inputting extension-less files with LuaTeX fails after recent LaTeX update
After the recent (last week) LaTeX update, inputting extension-less files in LuaTeX fails.
The workarounds in Error with LuaLaTeX, tcolorbox with the listings library and an extension-less file don't ...
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luamplib: global definitions without inheritance
Is there a way of globally metapost macros using luamplib and without enabling inheritance for mplibcode code blocks? It seems possible since it appears that this is what luamplib does when setting ...
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Using commands as arguments
I have several commands,which i want to override. Code for this commands almost the same,so i decided to use prop module. But when i use #1 #...n for commands,i get an error,that it's missing \begin{...
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Is grffile broken in luatex (latest update)?
It just happened for me since today that grffile.sty breaks includegraphics (graphicx.sty) in LuaTeX and makes it unable to find files. The following MWE does not work in LuaTeX but compiles normally ...
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background color with \mpcolor
I'm using following code and I would like to make the color of the background correspond to that of the beamer style. I tried the command background:=\mpcolor{block body example.bg}; but it does not ...
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Render unicode subscripts
Does anybody have any ideas how to get the following to render properly?
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
[Objective[|Ψ₀(2)⟩ to |Ψ₁(2)⟩ via [H₀[2,2], [H₁[2,2],...
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error: Font \TU/LatinModernRoman(0)/bx/n/10=LatinModernRoman
Everything was working fine in my main document before trying to embed this answer in my code. However, I don't quite understand the steps needed to resolve this according to this solution.
The error ...
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Why babel produce warnings about \rmfamily and \ttfamily with \babelfont
I have babel v3.34 a simple example with beamer which I have added a sans serif font family with \babelfont{sf}[Language=Default]{DejaVu Serif} produce such warnings
Package babel Warning: The ...
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How to use Calibri and other font options with TexStudio
I need to compile a file in 14pt, Calibri font, but I also need many math and editing packages. I get an error message when trying to compile in either xelatex
Fatal fontspec error: "cannot-use-...
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luatex / tex without tex / parse math
Inspired by the article TeX without TeX on the LuaTeX wiki, I am curious if I can replicate the whole LaTeX parsing-to-rendering pipeline in a lua script.
I am currently stuck with math -- the ...
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Issues trying to expand tex macro's fully in directlua
I am trying to create a JSON file from a LaTeX report that will be used for some post-processing.
For a number of values from my report I will need an expanded version that basically only includes ...
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How to Set Lengths (Glue/Skips?, not Dimensions), in LuaTeX?
I am trying to define a length, (not a dimension)—using Lua. But, I am having trouble with the syntax. I think I am supposed to be using the same structures/prototypes as glue_spec in order to still ...
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how override \@sect command for automatic tagging insertion
As i understood,to do automatic tagging of chapters,sections,sub..sections,using tagpdf package,for most classes,for example for article,scrbook,book and amsart i must override @sect command. also,as ...
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Load font style of OpenType font in lualatex
I got some problems loading .otf fonts with fontspec in lualatex. What I don't get is the following: Let's suppose I have several .ttf font styles. Then I will just specify them succesively for my ...
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how to do automatic tagging of chapters,sections,sub..sections and paragraphs?
As someone knows, I want to do package,which does automatic tagging of pdf documents. I try to solve problem of taggings of paragraphs with chapters,sections,subsections,subsubsections... sub.....
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Override pgf options in class
I am trying to use the WallCalendar (github, ctan) package. I have the most recent version of TeXLive installed (TeX Live 2019). When I try to compile with lualatex, I get the below error related to ...
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Change Chapter to custom .ttf font
I am a n00b, and I started writing a large Document with Tex Live in TeXstudio while compiling with LuaLatTex. I am required to replace the Font of some Headings, especially, \chapter and \Huge with a ...
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Ensure minimum length of last line by tightening word spacing
There are already a few questions that ask how to ensure a minimal length for the last line of a paragraph: Ensure minimal length of last line and Minimum length of last line of a paragraph. But ...
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Change color of all footnote elements at once
I'm using a specific shade of grey for my overall font color, but when I insert a \footnote, it appears in black. How can I have all the elements of it in my actual text color? Here is my MWE:
\...
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Why can’t I get unicode characters?
I’m trying to typeset the unicode dice character in LaTeX. I’m using emacs, on Ubuntu 18.04. I’ve tried manually setting my TeX-engine to xelatex and lualatex, and I get the same thing.
\usepackage{...
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Words apear incorrectly in tabular environment
[For the shown MWE, some words ( some of them are indicated in the code since most of the community is not familiar with Arabic) do not appear correctly, where some letters are reversed to be placed ...
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LuaLatex Taking a long time to finish
Is there any way to determine why a file is taking so long to compile? I added some code and it added about 30s to a minute or more to the compile time and the engine just seems to stall(it finishes ...
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Index like layout with dates instead of page numbers [duplicate]
I am trying to improve upon this, which is just really horrible I think. I want the sorted grouped index like layout, but it seems to be quite a fight to get rid of the page numbers which are kind of ...
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Chinese on MacTex2018, with hyperref
My question is similar to Chinese on MacTex2018, simple example, with a critical difference that I also need to use hyperref.
Summary: I am using Macbook to compile LaTeX file with Chinese characters ...
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Odd error when using Arabic in babel (TeXLive 2019)
I am facing a weird problem. Files that compiled correctly on earlier versions of TeXLive do not work on TeXLive 2019. The problem seems to be with babel and arabic (or a modified persian).
See this ...
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Fill page with lines
I am trying to put together a book, that could be thought of as a kind of book of anniversaries with some certain prefilled entries. So there is one page per day, and most days are going to have an ...
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Is there a list of math delimiters?
I recently discovered that the double square brackets \llbracket and \rrbracket from stmaryrd are available as unicode characters ⟦ and ⟧, which makes them easy to use with LuaLaTex.I was even more ...
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Apostrophe in math formula prevents luatex compilation for Slovak
The following example can be compiled with pdflatex or xelatex without any problems, but with lualatex, the compilation comes never to an end.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[slovak]{babel}
\...
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loca table not found [duplicate]
I'm trying to create a PDF from a file test.tex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Noto Color Emoji}
\begin{document}
😺
🌍
\end{document}
Running the command:
lualatex ...
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\leavevmode@ifvmode undefined for xindy/texindy?
I was getting "The control sequence at the end of the top line" referring to \leavevmodeifvmode for all my entries in an .ind file. Each entry of \indexentry in the idx file is translated to
\item \...
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Sorry, but pdflatex.exe did not succeed
Now I face another problem in latex. how to solve this problem.
Sorry, but pdflatex.exe did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
C:\Users\Maa-Baba-...
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Creating environment that includes itemize and tcolorbox
Consider the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,lipsum,lmodern}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{blindtext}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/350316/create-manual-...
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Tikz - image and text inside circle
I want to have the following layout:
What I have is the following code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,final,twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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What to choose for [Language X], babel or polyglossia?
I’m hoping to find a sort fo canonical per-language answer whether babel or polyglossia is a better choice when typesetting with lualatex. This is a discussion of them in general, this is too short ...
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How to get a sans-serif math wide hat in {xe|lua}latex?
Feeding
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\begin{document}
\(\widehat{\strut~~~\,\,\,\ \ \ \mskip10mu\mkern10mu\strut}\)
\(\mathsf{\widehat{\strut~~~\,\,\,\ \ \ \mskip10mu\...
