Questions tagged [polyglossia]
Polyglossia is a replacement for {babel} for use with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. It provides multilingual support for most languages and handles automatic script changing using the {fontspec} package.
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How do I typeset RTL language phrases inside a document with mostly LTR text?
I am using fontspec, Polyglossia and XeLaTeX to typeset a document in mostly English, but with a few Urdu phrases using the NotoNastaliq font. The problem is that the Urdu phrases get rendered ...
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How to use kaobook template with greek language and XeLaTeX?
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How can I compile kaobook template with greek language using XeLaTeX?
I have been trying to compile kaobook with XeLaTeX for a book in greek language without success.
The template uses ...
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How can I produce semibold within a textsanskrit command? [duplicate]
I'm creating complex documents with LuaLateX, and there is a problem specifying font weights. It appears to be a clash between fontspec and polyglossia. When the language is defined with polyglossia ...
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Polyglossia not understanding \textlang{}
I am trying to use \textlang{} as described on page 15, line 10 of the Polyglossia manual, but failing to understand the error message complaining that the language is not loaded:
\documentclass{...
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beamer + polyglossia: manual hyphenation
I have the following beamer frame:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[babelshorthands]{italian}
\disablehyphenation % to follow beamer documentation
\...
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writing an arabic math exam with Latex
I want to write my exam with latex. I tried to convert my english exam as follows:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\...
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Issue with Polyglossia hyphenation
This is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\disablehyphenation % <-- if I remove this line the word "corrispondente" is not automatically hyphened
\setmainlanguage{...
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\thepage doesn't work with some Arabic fonts
When I use polyglossia package in Arabic LaTex file , \thepage command isn't work with some fonts, it disappears or not be correct place and shape,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\...
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How to avoid polyglossia's verbosity when reading the AUX file
In the terminal output of the compilation of a file containing Hebrew and consisting of 79 pages, I get 5,857 times the message
Setting \\if@calendar@hebrew
Therefore compilation is very slow, since ...
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tikz calendar with foreign digits
I´d like to have the day numbers in devanagari digits with polyglossia. The latter provides \devanagaridigits{} to convert digits but simply doing \devanagaridigits{\tikzdaytext} in \pgfkeys{/tikz/day ...
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Spurious space in Hebrew polyglossia+fontspec [closed]
I use a tabular environment with paragraph cells. In one of the cells I include a Hebrew paragraph. The result is that I get a spurious space at the end of the first line (and therefore on the left, ...
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day and year counters in foreign digits
I'm trying to get the day and year numerals in foreign digits. So far I've been able to get the month names with a \newcommand \date<lang>. The language is sanskrit and the script is devanagari.
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Why does EB Garamond fail when Greek is the default language in Polyglossia?
I am trying to typeset some text in ancient Greek. (Whether it is ancient or modern doesn’t seem to make a difference.) I would like to do it using EB Garamond, which has polytonic Greek characters.
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Strange tex4ht behaviour with Devanagari text
I'm currently writing some text citing a lot of international literature, which I like to quote genuinely i.e., without using latin approximations. This in general works well using polyglossia, but ...
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Bold and italic Hindi Lohit Devanagri fonts in latex with Polyglossia
I am trying to typeset in Hindi using Lulalatex/Polyglossia with Lohit Devanagari fonts in Overleaf. There are no default bold and italics font for Lohit Devanagari. Hence I am using Fakebold and ...
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Unexpected line break due to `foreigndisplaycquote`-environment using `biblatex` and `polyglossia` with Persian as foreign language
I am using the foreigndisplaycquote-environment from the csquotes package for longer quotations in foreign languages in my document. It is set up like this:
\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes}
\...
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xelatex font search path
I am using Linux Ubuntu, using Tex Live 2023. I have fonts in both directories /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local and in /usr/share/texmf/fonts.
But my xelatex installed in /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin ...
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How to set a specific font for numbers (0-9) while keeping the main font for Arabic/Persian characters in XeLaTeX and Polyglossia?
I am working on a document using XeLaTeX and Polyglossia for typesetting Arabic/Persian text. I'm trying to set a specific font for numbers (0-9) while keeping the main font (Vazirmatn) for Arabic/...
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xepersian & polyglossia: section numbering is rtl, even though german is main language
I have a document with Persian elements. To get them typeset properly, I am using xepersian. Unfortunately, this results in all subsections being numbered RTL instead of LTR, thus 1.2.3 instead of 3.2....
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polyglossia and Portuguese
What is the current incantation for making hyphenation work with polyglossia? In olden times, ie. two years ago, I used \setmainlanguage{portuges}. It doesn’t work anymore... I get no hyphenation. I’...
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Beamer+Polyglossia(bidi)+RTL with xelatex breaking footnote overlay
I have seen from other answers (here and here) that bidi (from polyglossia) does not play nice with beamer and RTL languages. This is indeed an example of this. However, I am curious if there is a ...
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Paracol break corresponding columns at pagebreak
In general paracol respect synchronization between two corresponding columns also when it reach bottom page. But sometimes, it occur an absolute ugly orphan (and also widow) when a left side stay in ...
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Arabic text go under baseline when vocalisation diacritics (tashkil) is used
When an Arabic text is vocalized (using the diacritics called tashkil), the whole line sometimes goes below the expected baseline.
Here is an example with the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,...
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Conflict between package pdfcomment and polyglossia under XeLaTeX [duplicate]
The following file works fine when run with the choice of "english" but not "portuguese" under XeLaTeX;
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
% \...
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Item labels are outside document page margin with lualatex?
I am using Latex for my homework assignments in our native language Hebrew. I've been using polyglossia with XeLateX until now, but after encountering several annoying bugs I couldn't figure out how ...
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Incorrect RTL rendering of Arabic numbers in enumerate
I have the following code in latex to write in both Arabic and English:
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage[locale=maghrib, ...
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Error with polyglossia using spanish and \sen
I'm trying to switch from pdflatex to lualatex. When I use polyglossia using Spanish with \sen it does not work well. Several tries, no success. MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{book}
\usepackage{...
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TeX capacity exceeded error with polyglossia
I'm using Overleaf in XeLaTeX to work with various different Semitic languages, and I'm trying to typeset their scripts. I've been using ArabTex and cJHebrew for Arabic and Hebrew respectively, but I'...
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i need to Remove space between section number and title and make the number section in the right side
\documentclass[12pt,oneside, tikz, ignorerest=false]{book} \usepackage[paperwidth=210mm,paperheight=297mm,hmargin=0.5cm,top=10mm,bottom=23mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Use two languages in leaflet class
I am using the following code to write a leaflet with two languages:
\documentclass[10pt,foldmark,notumble]{leaflet}
\renewcommand*\foldmarkrule{.3mm}
\renewcommand*\foldmarklength{5mm}
% Set ...
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Enumitem custom list does not work with polyglossia
I want to create a custom list while using enumitem and polyglossia.
Running latexmk main on this
main.tex:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{czech}
\...
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Diacritic on last Hebrew letter
I'm using the polyglossia package to write Hebrew text, with Hebrew set as the second language (\setotherlanguage{hebrew}). However, I'm facing an issue where the diacritic point on the last letter of ...
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Incompatibility of complexity and polyglossia
The following simple MWE, generates an error:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{complexity}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[variant=american]{english}
\begin{document}
Test!
\end{...
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Devanagari and Latin Characters in Spacemacs org-mode layer
I use spacemacs org-mode and try to create a pdf file with Devanagari and Latin Characters through Latex.
Here is my unsuccessful approach:
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{polyglossia}
#+LATEX_HEADER: \...
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To glue the horizontal lines of composite Bengali characters under special formatting
NB. I guess the question has a little dependency on Language (Bengali). I would try to explain every font in transliterated format.
I like to use a character a below/above another character b. In my ...
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\textfrench causing no chapter numbers in theorem numbering
I am dealing with a bilingual document using polyglossia: Arabic (main) and French (secondary, mostly math only).
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\setmainlanguage[locale=algeria]{...
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Applying \textfrench to item numbering inside lists written in Arabic
CONTEXT | Bilingual document, Polyglossia in the preamble: Arabic=main, French=secondary (mostly for math). Used \textfrench to render page numbering and theorem numbering with the same font used in ...
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Polyglossia and French hyphenation
What am I doing wrong here?
Hyphenation seems to be missing.
Here is a minimal reproducible example:
\documentclass[a5paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{...
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witharrows package reverses text in RTL language?
I do my homework in Latex, and I recently learned about the witharrows package which allows me to draw arrows between lines explaining what I did there. I find this very helpful for my homework ...
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do multiplication and display the result in foreign script with expl3
I'm trying to make a macro able to do a simple arithmetical operation and which will display the result beside their equivalent in a foreign script. I'm trying to do it in expl3 with use of \...
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why mpchess generated board is out of the page here is the simplest code possible
\documentclass[a4paper, twoside,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\setmainfont{amiri}
\usepackage{...
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Token not allowed warning for hebrew numeral?
I am using Latex to do my homework, and I write in our native language Hebrew. I am using polyglossia to configure the language settings and fonts in the document and hyperref to add links wherever I ...
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Kerning and page number problem after \foreignlanguage in xelatex
While I use xelatex or lualatex, it seems that language rules remain in effect after the end of \foreignlanguage{...}{...} while \begin{otherlanguage}{...}...\end{otherlanguage} works as expected.
Am ...
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Which is better for arabic Babel or Polyglossia [closed]
I need to know for general purpose articles or books.
Which one plays best with figures, diagrams, multicolumns, TOC, enumitem..etc.
and most appreciated if problems with skak, and chessboard are less ...
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TOC glitch in mixed English/Hebrew document using polyglossia
I'm using xelatex with polyglossia to typeset a mixed English/Hebrew document, with the majority of the text in English. The body of the document is fine. The table of contents is the problem. I run ...
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The current roman font does not contain the Arabic (polyglossia)
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{arabic}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic,Scale=1.1]{Traditional Arabic}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\begin{document}
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polyglossia loads luatexbase
This is a coding question (from a low-skill coder). Using lualatex compiler on Linux.
TeXlive 2022. Search did not provide useful results.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
% ...
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DGruyter package & polyglossia
I was recently granted access to DGruyter package, as I am finalising a book for this publishing house. Before, I was compiling the TeX through XeLaTeX, using reledmac & polyglossia for Polytonic ...
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MDPI does not support urdu, polyglossia is overwriting my title and not working with mdpi
\documentclass[journal,article,submit,XeLaTeX,moreauthors]{Definitions/mdpi}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%Package added for urdu writing/////
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\...
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! LaTeX Error: File `polyglossia.sty' not found [duplicate]
I get error as
"! LaTeX Error: File `polyglossia.sty' not found.
! Emergency stop.
<read *>
Error: LaTeX failed to compile ase.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for ...
