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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Section numbering in Devanagari in polyglossia
Am using Polyglossia to generate Sanskrit documents. Simple document (article). but with small sections. The section numbers generated are in arabic font and not in Devanagari. How to solve this?
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How to use polyglossia to translate a document?
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How can I use polyglossia package to translate my document from one language to another?
The documentation and all examples online I have found show polyglossia package being used to product ...
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Why error is coming when using listings in polyglossia package?
The complete file is here.
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt,fancy,authoryear,twoside]{elegantbook}
%--------------------------------------------------
%Bengali Font in Document
%--------------------------...
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Why doesn't chapter number show when elegant book class uses polyglossia package?
When elegantbook class (3.11) uses polyglossia package it does not show chapter number at header?
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt,fancy,authoryear,twoside]{elegantbook}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%-------------...
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Biblatex reference list not translated to Bahasa Indonesia
Currently, I am following a tutorial on overleaf about bibliography generation. I tried to use Bahasa Indonesia language in my next document, so I load polyglossia package and set the main language to ...
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Chapter number is not showing in elegantbook class for Bengali
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt]{elegantbook}
%--------------------------------------------------
%Bengali Font in Document
%--------------------------------------------------
% For a bilingual document
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Ancient greek variant not working in polyglossia package
I'm using the polyglossia package to set ancient greek as secondary language.
The code works fine when I just type
\setotherlanguages{greek}
However an error appears when i change it to
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LaTex Urdu with Aeraab Issue
I need help in URDU Script. Some Aeraab works fine, but some pronunciation symbols dislocate from their actual position. The working example is,
\documentclass[paper=a4, 12pt, oneside]{article}
\...
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RTL numbering in urdu language table of contents section number and references
I am writing a book in Urdu using polyglossia package. Urdu text goes from right to left but numbers are written from left to right. The number format is correct everywhere except in the section ...
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Define different fonts for different scripts
I'm trying to define different fonts for different scripts, Latin and Greek. I'm currently using Linux Libertine O as my main font, which includes support for Greek, but I would like to try using a ...
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Arabic Biblatex with English Title
I am writing a book in Arabic and I am citing English books. I am having issues with citing the Arabic and English books together. Therefore, I decided to translate the English book title and add a ...
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Polyglossia changes the bold letters from algorithms
I compile the tex document with XeLaTeX. When I put on my premable this \setdefaultlanguage{greek}, table of content and algorithms special words loses their bold letters and I got an output like that....
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Can you help me to correct this tex files ? "About chapter format"
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{pgfplots,tikz,enumerate,array,fancyhdr,enumitem,fancybox,graphicx,amsfonts,...
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tufte-book & Tectonic (XeTeX) & bidi / polyglossia don't get along
I'm trying to write a document with tufte-book. Most of the document is supposed to be in English but I wish to write some text in Hebrew. I am able successfully compile documents with more common ...
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Problem placing numbers after Vedic accents in Tamil
I am having a problem placing a number after a vedic accent in Tamil. The minimum map file is
**********************************************************************
LHSName "tamv"
RHSName &...
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Awkward title page with Polyglossia in Beamer with Madrid theme
Using Polyglossia with Madrid theme produces an awkward title page heading.
MWE1 - Working fine without the Madrid theme:
\documentclass{beamer}
%:Language
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Arial}
\...
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The use of polyglossia changes Chinese font selection
I just switched from babel to polyglossia, and surprisingly found my san-serif Chinese font changes. Consider the following example:
%! TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage{...
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polyglossia and \selectlanguage in the preamble causing Chinese characters disappear
Consider the following example (compile with xelatex):
%! TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ctex}
\RequirePackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage[...
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Foreign-Language support in \part, \Section, etc
I have a document with a lot of different languages, some of which appear in \part{}, \section{}, etc. blocks. For example, the following MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{scrbook}
\...
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Chinese text in English scrbook with luatexja-fontspec and polyglossia
I have the following document:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\makeatletter
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{luacode}
%\usepackage[UTF8]{ctex}
\usepackage{...
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How to write numerals of equations by the digits of a non-Latin-based language?
I am typesetting a document in Persian using polyglossia. Thanks to fontspec under XeLaTeX, I can copy/paste Persian digits in the text, but when I do the same for equations, compilation render ...
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Polyglossia breaks when changing default language from English
I am trying to rework my CV a little and decided I'd just use a plain old article format. When I made the CV itself with lualatex, fontspec, and polyglossia it worked fine with \setdefaultlanguage{...
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Inconsistent list label-dots with Arabic using polyglossia
I am using polyglossia to write document with Arabic and English. I have an enumerate field. The problem is that if the last word prior was English, the dot is placed on the right instead of the left ...
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Problem with ref and box of theorem
Dear all I have a problem when \label and \ref as it is in this minimal example please help me
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openany]{book}
%-------------------------------------------------------
\...
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Polyglossia and Makeidx
I am trying to index Arabic documents. The idx file generated is:
\indexentry{الوعي|hyperpage}{\RLE {١}}
\indexentry{المسؤولية|hyperpage}{\RLE {٢}}
When I run makeindex, I get this error in ilg file
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Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for `spanish'
The initial error:
How to solve this error on macOS?
Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for `spanish' (polyglossia) I will use \language=\l@nohyphenation ...
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How to change the tablename and reflect also when using cleveref?
I have the following example document where I'm using polyglossia and cleveref. The default name for table in spanish is cuadro. How can I change it into tabla and propagate this change to cleveref?
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Error when using polyglossia, french and make4ht
A memory error occurs when using the package polyglossia, setting french as default language and compiling with make4ht.
Here is a simple code to reproduce the error:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Simplest way to write Greek and English text in the long-term and for all OS
I have written LaTeX documents with lots of greek text and also interspersed with English sentences some time ago. Including bibliography. I used babel and pdflatex for this.
Now I am trying to show ...
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Polyglossia and hyperref interference when using french language
I have a warning when compiling the following code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
a
\end{document}
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Set font for numbers in Polyglossia
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\englishfont{CMU Serif} % English font
\newfontfamily\thaifont[Script=Thai]{TH Sarabun New} % Thai font
\usepackage{...
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Biblatex with LatexBangla [duplicate]
I have a document (Texstudio in OSX) written using the LatexBangla package (XeLaTex system). But I am unable incorporate a bibliography in English written using biblatex (biber). The minimal code is ...
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Persian/Farsi polyglossia font error
I am getting this error:
Package polyglossia error. The current latin font PersianModern(0)
does not contain the "Arabic" script!(polyglossia) Please define
\arabicfont with \newfontfamily ...
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How to get just the visarga symbol in Devanagari
This is my code
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{footnpag}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage[total={6.5in,8.75in},top=1.2in,left=1....
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How to forbid a certain character from starting a line of output text? Specifically concerning Tibetan text
I am typesetting texts in Tibetan, and I am trying to replicate a traditional Tibetan typesetting convention (they mostly used handwritten manuscripts or xylographs/wood-block prints). There is a ...
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Numbering appears from right to left in mixed language
I'm having trouble with section numbering appearing in a reverse order and reversed parentheses in formulas for a file mainly written in English, with some Hebrew at the first two pages.
I've tried ...
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Fix sexam package
This package is a modified version of the "exam" package, compatible with the Arabic language (via XeLaTeX/polyglossia) for exams
In the link there are the package files, but no one worked.
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How do I change languages for text in math mode?
So I have a document with Hebrew as its main language and English as the secondary language. Hebrew is used for regular text and English is used for both regular text and text inside math formulas. ...
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how can I use math environment for a non English language?
I am trying to print in for Sanskrit language but math environment does not print Sanskrit in fractions.
I am using this $\dfrac{/जी.श}{५}$ and have tried other shorthands too. Sanskrit text is ...
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Polyglossia support for Mexican Spanish variant broken?
EDIT: Thanks to the issue linked by @moewe, I found out that the Mexican and Spanish versions of the Spanish Polyglossia module are identical except for a single word ("tabla" vs. "...
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Lualatex + amsthm + polyglossia + CharisSIL = error
The following
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm,polyglossia}
\setmainfont{CharisSIL}
\newtheorem{defi}{Definition}
\begin{document}
\begin{defi}
Harmless definition
\end{defi}
\end{...
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xelatex+polyglossia+hebrew: how to avoid parasitic blank space
This is a problem I have for many years now, maybe you can help me solve it.
I use the latest version of polyglossia (v1.50a), fontspec (v2.7i) and xetex (3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020)).
For ...
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table of contents font changes to bold when it is declared as regular
I am trying to create a table of contents and I use Devanagari font. I declare the font to be Shobhika Regular, but in the table of contents environment it changes to boldface. How to prevent this ...
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Change French chapter name with polyglossia
After reading polyglossia documentation here is what I ended with
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{french}
\begin{document}
\gappto\captionsfrench{\renewcommand\...
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Trouble in writing Myanmar and English
When writing Myanmar Text as a main font, English output is bad. I'd like to get English output as default font.
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How to correct the polyglossia example with arabic so the formatting is not lost?
I have created a minimal example to reproduce the behavior I'm experiencing.
I have defined a template (mytemplate.cls) with a specific formatting for title:
\ProvidesClass{mytemplate}
\LoadClass{...
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Why does hyphenation orphan combining accents?
While testing a package I was writing to map Greek beta code to Unicode, I discovered a bug in both Babel and Polyglossia, running under either XeTeX or LuaTeX. The packages will happily insert a ...
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arabic tcolorbox for definition
I have an error with this tex files, how to improve it ?
Runaway argument?
{
! Paragraph ended before \tcb@theo@label was complete.
<to be read again>
\par
l.79 \begin{...
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selnolig Turns en and em Dashes into Hyphens if polyglossia is loaded Before the Fonts
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainfont{Stix Two Text}
\usepackage{selnolig}
\begin{document}
-- ---
\end{document}
Of which ...
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How to -- properly -- underline the ordinal masculine and feminine?
There are languages, Portuguese being one of them, where the ordinals (masculine and feminine) are always supposed to be underlined. About half of fonts do not provide underlined-ordinals, leaving up ...
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