Questions tagged [xetex]
XeTeX is a Unicode-capable variant of the TeX engine. Use this tag if your question is about Xe(La)TeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX.
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replace the algorithm label when the algorithm can break the page boundary
I use the breakablealgorithm proposed by @Werner at Algorithm tag and page break to implement the algorithm that can break the page boundary. However, the label of the newly generate algorithm cannot ...
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Docker XeLaTeX arara no error msg
When I compile my LaTeX Document locally with arara it works! But when I put it into Docker (Fedora) I only get this Emergeny-stop:
This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999991 (TeX Live 2019) (...
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How to display first page as a single page in a “Thesis” class
I am writing a thesis and and I would like to view/see first page of my thesis as a single page in PDF and rest is Two pages.
I have seen this in Krishna Kumar template (https://gitlab.com/kks32/phd-...
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Changing font of mathematical functions (ln, exp, etc.)
SOLVED: see edits #1 and #2 below.
I'm trying to set up a XeLaTeX document that uses a sans-serif math font (Myriad Pro) with a serif text font (Arno Pro). Because Myriad Pro does not have full math ...
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Square bracket border for annotations in screenplay text [duplicate]
I would like to put a square bracketed border around some words in a paragraph and also have it around a whole centered paragraph, depending on the paragraph width. Example:
Page breaks in paragraphs ...
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How to avoid linebreak after command and before period?
I use XeLaTeX with the memoir class to typeset my linguistics thesis. In the running text, I often mention prefixes, which have a following hyphen. For example: "un- is an inherited Germanic ...
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How to remove some content from a page without affecting the placement of the rest?
Is there a way to make some content occupy its usual space and produce the same spacing around it, but not show up in any way? (In particular, putting the content in a \phantom box is a non-solution.)
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How customize Glossarie display/print?
I am using bib2gls to create a glossary. I defined new keys to the glossary using the command \glsaddstoragekey, but I have trouble to get these keys printed by the command \printunsrtglossary, e.g., ...
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Strange behavior in Grantha
I am using the velthuis-sanskrit-grantha.map found at
https://www.mail-archive.com/xetex@tug.org/msg11336.html
Here is my code
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\...
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Adding space in math superscript in XeLaTeX
I had the same question as asked here. The solution is to add this piece of code in the preamble
\let\sp^
\catcode`\^=\active
\gdef^#1{\sp{\hspace{0.06em} #1}}
The solution seems to work. However, I ...
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How to align text vertically with fixed textwidth?
I'm lost on how to align text properly. Anything I search up with respect to textwidth only gives results on how formatting tables work, but I'm just trying to work with plain text here. Any idea what ...
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Warning building in Sublime Text XeLaTeX BibLaTeX
I'm having quite some unpleasant moments every time I build my LaTeX documents using Sublime Text 3. Every time I compile a document I get the following warning
LaTeX Warning: You have requested, on ...
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How to use arbitrary font in pgfplots?
I produce the following chart:
With the following code (compiled with XeLaTeX):
\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor} % more control over colors
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How get \Box like symbol with XeLaTeX
The source below, when processed with pdflatex produces the math symbol shown here:
But if I process the source with xelatex, I get error:
./unitsquare.tex:26: LaTeX Error: Command \Box not provided ...
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Define a command on xelatex command line
I would like to define the command \qonly on the xelatex command line to be the string chapter07. Later in my LaTeX file I will have an ifdef that will provide the argument to an \includeonly if \...
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The latest xelatex update make the beamer ball disappeared
I update the texlive update to date, and find the ball type outlines of beamer disappeared when using xelatex to compile, but lualatex work(the un-updated xelatex also work). But lualatex is so slow, ...
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Listings unexpectedly descends the star(*) character
Using the Fontspec package in XeLaTeX, I declared a new mono font(Menlo) as the font for the listings package. But the package unexpectedly descends the star(*) character, which is weird. How to ...
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Bug in Apple's pdfKit triggered with xelatex, not with pdflatex
This seems to be a bug in Apple's pdfKit. However, as this problem only occurs if xelatex is used (works fine with pdflatex), I am hoping that someone here can help with some sort of workaround that ...
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Nested \discretionary-ies in (Xe)LaTex resulting an error
I want to set an automatic hyphenation for the Armenian word ÕµÕ”Õ¶Õ¤Õ£Õ¶Õ„Õ¬ in XeLaTeX with \discretionary. The problem is, that there are four consonants in a row, and the Armenian language has very ...
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Can a definition of `\cyrdash` command be added to TU encoding? [closed]
Some legacy encodings, such as T2A, T2B, T2C, that contain cyrillic letters, define \cyrdash command as an ailas for \textemdash. For example, t2aenc.def contains the following two lines:
\...
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Help - very urgent -, LaTeX template for the German Youth Institute e. V., Munich; Citavi, Strato (literature, tables, …) [closed]
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
The German Youth Institute e. V., Munich, approached me about a LaTeX template. I was able to make suggestions for the superstructure (modular solution with a master.tex). ...
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extract all the xtables in to the one .tex file from r
I have two xtables in my R script and I would like to extract them the same .tex file then I can call them to my main.tex with \newcommand
print(xtable(head(mtcars), digits =2, caption = "...
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XeLatex compilation failing when adding specific paragraph-formatting instructions to a document that uses Arabic fonts
I am having difficulty compiling the following latex code using XeLatex. It raises the infamous "Missing \endcsname inserted" error.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to wrap Tamil words?
I have used this code.
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Noto Sans Tamil}
\begin{document}
ą®ąÆą®°ą®æą®ŖąÆ ą®Ŗą®¾ą®ąÆą®ą®æ ą®ŖąÆą®±ąÆą®®ąÆą®Æą®¾ą®ÆąÆ ą®µąÆą®ąÆ ą®ØąÆą®°ą®®ąÆ ą®Ŗą®øąÆą®øą®æą®±ąÆą®ąÆą®³ąÆ ą®Øą®æą®©ąÆą®±ą®æą®°ąÆą®ØąÆą®¤ą®¾ą®³ąÆ. ...
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Problem with fancyhead/rhead using Devanagari
There seems to be some problem with fancyhead/rhead when I use a Devanagari font. My code is the following:
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{footnpag}
\...
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XeLaTeX doesn't work latex editors
So,I have this xelatex version:
XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020)
kpathsea version 6.3.2
Copyright 2020 SIL International, Jonathan Kew and Khaled Hosny.
There is NO warranty. ...
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XeLaTeX hyphens aren't hyphens?
I recently moved away from LyX to TeXstudio and am using XeLaTeX to generate PDF. I cannot use PdfLaTeX because of the fontspec package. I rewrote my resume and went to apply for some positions. To my ...
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Table of Contents causes a $ error in XeTEX
I've included my whole file below. This causes a $ error when run. When I run it with the \tableofcontents commented out it works. Weird thing: Only in XeLaTeX (with MakeIndex and BibTex). It was ...
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How to debug character set difference with document class change?
I'm trying to use an agda package to compile to latex, and am getting the below error when I make a seemingly insignificant change to the literate agda file (see https://agda.readthedocs.io/en/v2.6.1....
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How to specify this font in beamer?
How to specify the font used in the following figure in my beamer document? By the way, I am using XeLaTeX.
% !TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass[]{beamer}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\usepackage{fontspec}
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How to use a specific symbol on an specific font
How can I use a specific character of a specific font? And how could I use it in math-mode?
I have tried to use, what I would expect to work:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\...
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Error using Makefile to generate TeX file
I'm trying to create a Makefile that generates my document.
ā resume git:(main) ā cat Makefile
.PHONY: .
CC = xelatex
CURRENT_DIR = .
RESUME_DIR = ./src
RESUME_SRCS = $(shell find $(RESUME_DIR) -...
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How to type in XeLaTeX a symbol by its unicode code?
How to type in XeLaTeX a symbol by its code? In particular, I am interested in different dashes:
U+2011 ā non-breaking hyphen as hyphen (U+2010), but not an allowed line break point
U+2012 ā figure ...
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Fakebold not working on mathbb fonts
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb, amsfonts}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{latinmodern-math.otf}[FakeBold=4]
\let\mathbbalt\mathbb
\usepackage{unicode-...
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Bullets not showing with Beamer and XeLaTeX
I have the following presentation that I compile with XeLaTeX:
\documentclass[aspectratio=169, svgnames]{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[c]
\frametitle{Learning Outcomes}...
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How to access data properly?
I have a class which defines the following:
% myclass.cls
\newcommand*{\name}[2]{\def\@firstname{#1}\def\@lastname{#2}}
\newcommand*{\firstname}[1]{\def\@firstname{#1}}
\newcommand*{\lastname}[1]{\def\...
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\href links are broken with Adobe Reader
I encountered a problem lately that I can't find a reason for. I wrote a command "infopage" which is placed in my .cls-File and does look like the following:
\newcommand{\infopage}[2]{%
\...
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Fontspec mathbb fonts changed even though latin modern math font is used
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amssymb, amsmath, amsthm}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}[FakeBold=2]
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{...
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XeLaTeX update [20201004] and item ball in Beamer
Beamer item balls go missing while compiling in XeLateX since yesterday's TeXlive update, however, the same code works with pdfLaTeX. Any solution, please. Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{beamer}
\...
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Some arabic chars appear as boxes with some fonts
When I try to use a font like AGA Dimnah Regular, all letters appear as empty boxes.
I tried opening the file in a font editing software. it appears that AGA Dimnah is using some weird special glyphs ...
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Problem after TeX Live update
Code
Consider the following example.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\begin{document}
\fbox{\begin{pspicture}(10,10)
\rput(5,5){\includegraphics[height = 0.1\...
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The 127th \color does not work on XeLaTeX [duplicate]
The following document
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\color{.}\color{.}\color{.}\color{.}\color{.}\...
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Using \today in \hyperref package
Posting a question for the first time so please let me know if I missed anything.
I am working in a LaTeX document and here is what I want to achieve using the hyper ref package:
Have a URL that is ...
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KOMA cannot change font in ToC for section
I successfully changed the font for the chapters, sections etc. and for the chapterentry in ToC, but it doesn't change the font for sectionentry. How can I set all elements in the ToC to have the same ...
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Question about centring text and adding borders to table of contents
I want to do two things in my document
Add borders to my table of contents
Centre/align the title of table to title of the page
In the following image, I am only showing the contents (not the whole ...
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Set the color of a tikz-cd Glyph arrow tip with xelatex
I'm using a Glyph tip from tikz-cd to get arrows like \looparrowright and friends.
However I would like to change the color. latex compiles the following MWE correctly, but xelatex leaves the loop ...
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XeLaTeX Fakebold does not affect math text
Here is a MWE of the issue.
\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amssymb, amsmath, amsthm}
\usepackage[]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{ModernMT-Extended.otf}[
FakeBold=1,
...
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Reference incremented labels of figures automatically
Is there any way to make Figures-label with automatically incremented counter.
I have this code:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany]{book}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\...
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How to use visual studio code LaTex Workshop with xelatex
I want to compile a tex document using xelatex in LaTeX Workshop extension in visual studio code. How can I change compiler from default one to xetex? I put my current setting.json file bellow.
{
&...
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Tikz borders not working after using the package Polyglossia
First I tried this bit of code, it's working fine, the results are as expected:
\documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}
\usepackage{...
