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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more pages on one sheet with **cut off margins** and `pdfpages`
I have recently asked a similar question elsewhere but I still haven't obtained an answer I was looking for. This time I shall be much more precise (which will even yield a new question rather than ...
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Macro with variable length list as an argument
I have a book which includes lots of circular diagrams generated using TikZ. This is being compiled using XeLaTeX (and I specifically don't want to switch to LuaTeX). To simplify the code for these ...
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How can I set pdfinfo based on content of external file?
How can I include the contents of an external file in the PDF metadata (either built-in attribute like Subject, or custom one like My ID)?
I have written some text to shell-output.txt with, for ...
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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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Is \hl incompatible with \textquotesingle? ("Cannot use \XeTeXglyph with ectt1000; not a native platform font")
The command \hl{\textquotesingle{}test\textquotesingle{}} (where \hl is from the soul package) yields the following error:
Cannot use \XeTeXglyph with ectt1000; not a native platform font.
\remove@...
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What is the most appropriate way to sandwich latin words between some unicode paragraph (Arabic, Khmer, Burmese for instance)?
I'd like to use english words inside paragraphs in Burmese. I really have to use XeLaTex instead of LuaLaTex for my language and fontspec package. I currently do something like below code. But I ...
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Why setting `\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping = 2` causes problem to two `\fontspec` in sequence?
I encountered one strange problem with \fontspec and \XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping = 2 setting. If I use more than one \fontspec in sequence in a line, I got an error. All those commented line with % ...
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How to set author name in Devanagari using devanagari package in LaTeX beamer?
Minimal working exmaple file with dn extension.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{devanagari}
\title[]{My Title}
\author[{\dn\dncalcutta meraa naama}]{My Name}
\institute[]{{\dn \dncalcutta ...
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Arch linux 2022: TikZ sets color to default in XeLaTeX but not in pdfLaTeX or LuaLaTeX (Is it a bug?) [duplicate]
Old Post: (See solution below)
See the below example:
\documentclass[xcolor=table,leqno,aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\newcommand\tikzmark[2][]{\begin{tikzpicture}[...
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What are the math fonts used in this page
I would like to use the nice fonts (text + math) of the following document (from the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics).
I tried WhatTheFont but without a convenient result.
I used pdffonts ...
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Bibliography for individual chapter in Texstudio (MacOS)
I am writing thesis chapter with individual bibliography. Executing with Xelatex, and I found no errors, preview shows everything but citations and reference. Although, I have written report with ...
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Wrapfig on right of text leaves blank space beneath the figure
I am writing a LaTeX document that contains a right figure that is wrapped by text. However, despite being at the end of a page, there is a blank space that spread throughout multiple pages, in my ...
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Beginner Question: Idiomatic way to quote non-latin text?
I am a hobbyist and very much a beginner at LaTeX. I am typesetting a book and would like to include a quote written in Devanagari script. Here is what I came up with:
\newfontfamily\devanagari{Noto ...
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How to detect iniTeX?
How can I detect, from within a LaTeX document class, if the engine was started with -ini or not? I’m using XeTeX if that matters.
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Greek directly in math mode XeLaTeX instead of PdfLatex
This piece of code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{alphabeta}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$α+β+γ=\alpha+\beta+\gamma$
\end{document}
works perfectly in MiKTeX-TeXworks provided ...
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Automatically assign a value to name attribute in hyperref
Look at the text box I create with hyperref. I have documents with over 600 text fields, some of which are constantly changing. Is there any way in hperref to automatically assign the names of the ...
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How can I create a layout like this?
I would like to have a larger left margin like in the picture above. I guess something like this would do it:
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1.25in, left=1.5in, right=1.5in]{geometry}
I think I should ...
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How to set bold version for single math font file in unicode-math? [duplicate]
We can set the bold version for some math fonts which contain separate bold math font files, e.g., XITSMath. But for some math fonts, only one font file, such as STIXMath. In STIXMath, there are also ...
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How to include bibtexfile for each subfile or chapter separately in xeTex?
I have a main.tex file which uses \subfiles or \input to include other files as either subfiles or chapters. In the main.tex file, there is a separate bibliography called bibfilemain.bib. The problem ...
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Support for languages other than English in LaTeX [duplicate]
I am currently using fully updated TeX Live 2022 and I am very happy to see a lot of new advancements in LaTeX which make typesetting languages other than English easy and more convenient. I have seen ...
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KOMA: Keep layout when removing BCOR
I have a printed document where I used the BCOR option to add some space on the left for binding. Now I got asked to provide the same document again in electronic form. For this using BCOR would look ...
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How can I (re-)define language-specific commands (XeTeX, polyglossia)?
When I first wrote a very large document with pdfTeX and babel, I defined two commands for (ancient) Greek only:
Linebreak is allowed after \,:
\addto\extrasgreek{%
\RenewDocumentCommand\,{}{\...
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How can beamer subsubsections have level 4 in PDF bookmarks?
When using beamer, I found that my subsubsections are not shown in the PDF bookmarks.
I can use \setcounter{tocdepth}{4} or \hypersetup{bookmarksdepth=4} to fix it. And I wonder why.
In this answer, ...
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TeX doesn't apply changed memory settings from local texmf.cnf
I added my own textmf.cnf and have set up TEXMFCNF to point to it with export TEXMFCNF=path: in .zshrc.
kpsewhich finds it correctly. My texmf.cnf:
stack_size=150000
When I run latexmk -synctex=1 -...
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how to use Poiret One font [duplicate]
how can I use poiret one font for just 2 or 3 lines (and not the whole text)? Is there a command like \textsf{word} for poiret one font type?
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Intersection line not correct in PSTricks (3D) and warning "transparency ignored"
Please look at hte following MWE, compiled in Plain XeTeX (or Plain LuaTeX):
\ifdefined\directlua \input luaotfload.sty \fi
\input pst-solides3d.tex
\psset{unit=1cm}
\psset{viewpoint=50 30 30 ...
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Hide some miniframes in navigation bar when not using compress
I’m using Windows 10, TeX Live 2022, XeLaTeX and latexmk, my compile command is latexmk -xelatex ....
When using beamer, I want to hide some miniframes (the clikable “circles”) in the navigation bar.
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xelatex printing two small ff in smallcaps font
I have used a font's capital letters to create a fake smallcap letters. The lowercase letters are just uppercase letters scaled at 70% and moved lower to match the base. Everything works great except ...
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Why isn't `\elapsedtime` of xetex on windows stable?
% !TeX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\tex_resettimer:D
\int_step_inline:nnn { 1 } { 1000 }
{
#1\tex_par:D
}
\message{\fp_eval:n{\sys_timer:/65536}...
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Wrong file location by \IfFileExists
The following code is the content of my main.tex.
The file a.tex is in the subdirectory tmp under the directory where main.tex is, that is to say: ./main.tex and ./tmp/a.tex.
The problem of my code is:...
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LaTeX Error: Command \anw@print already defined on build
I am working on a large tex document that was running pretty smoothly, until now that I upgraded to Linux mint 20.3 and reinstall texlive-full. I was using xelatex as my compiler, but now every time I ...
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Polyglossia fills the aux file with useless code
My file uses polyglossia with English, Hebrew and Arabic languages. The aux file is filled with 2,103 (!!) instances of the following code:
\selectlanguage *[variant=usmax]{english}
\@writefile{toc}{\...
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Why does the picture environment behave differently on Windows and Linux?
Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\newdimen\somelength
\somelength=1pt
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(\somelength,0){Some text}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
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Certain math symbols & font combinations break XeLaTeX in TexLive 2021
The following MWE compiles fine with XeLaTeX and TeXLive 2020:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathspec}
\setallmainfonts[Mapping=tex-text]{Carlito}
\setmathsfont(Greek){[cmmi10]}
\begin{...
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Missing characters to convert the output of `tree` command using pandoc
I have a markdown document that contains the output of Unix tree command:
output/
├── cutadapt
│ ├── 0001.PbANKA_820_S1_R1.log
│ ├── 0002.PbANKA_820_S2_R1.log
│ └── 0003.PbANKA_R1.log
├── fastqc
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Subcaptions in Hebrew XeLaTeX
I have a pdfLaTeX document with lots of TikZ drawings placed in subfigures with individual captions (using the Springer class svmono). I tried to translate to Hebrew XeLaTeX using the subcaption ...
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bullets on the navigation bar in beamer miniframes theme have shifted clickable positions when using XeLaTeX
(May not be minimal) working example:
% use XeLaTeX to compile
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Berlin}
\title{Test}
\author{Testname}
\institute{Testing University}
%%---------------------------
\...
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How to Produce a Rectangular Radial Glow
Consider the code
\documentclass[a5paper,12pt,onecolumn,openany,final]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0.7in,vmargin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}
\...
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How to Produce a Transparent Image with Xelatex
I compile the following code with pdflatex (which works fine)---
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,graphicx}
\usepackage{transparent}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure} [!htb]
\centering
\...
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Cannot compile bold text with specified font
I'm trying to do a title page so I can reuse it for multiple works in my University. I'm obligated to use Times New Roman (which explains the usage of Nimbus Roman as an alternative). It almost works, ...
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How to Draw an Old-Fashioned Tombstone in LaTeX
I would like to draw an old-fashioned (not a Halmos) tombstone.
Consider the code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{pst-slpe,xcolor,yfonts,scalerel}
\definecolor{granite}{RGB}{103,103,103}
% Compiles ...
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Add Arabic Abstract as a second abstract using the package arabxetex and the compiler XeLatex
I am writing my thesis in the English language, but I need to add a second abstract in Arabic language, the problem is not using the Arabic language with English, I already solved this problem using ...
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How to pass custom arguments to the xelatex command to Overleaf Community edition?
I'm writing my diploma thesis and after I added some figures with TikZ, the compilation time is taking 1-2 minutes. I am running the official docker image of Overleaf community Edition on a local ...
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Getting the error "Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ...}<section title>}{1}{section.1}". What should I do?
I am new to LateX and have started to like it very much. I have a document which on compilation gives the error as stated in the question. I am working with TexStudio and when I click on the error ...
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Build hyperlink between Author name and footer
In the following code, I try to build a hyperlink between the Author name and left hand footer. That is to say, when I click the text Author name(made by \author), the page view will jump to left hand ...
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How does a TeX engine process the informations within a .tex file?
I want to write a LaTeX-TeX parser to manipulate .tex files for a program. I found this question here How does a TeX engine read and render the input stream? which explains how everything works under ...
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Tikz externalize not working on Tectonic despite shell-escape enabling
While trying to compile some graphs with PgfPlots I incurred in the out-of-memory error in Tectonic. I therefore looked around for solution and Tikz externalization presented itself as a solution. ...
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How to Produce a Colorized Aura About an Image and Which Resembles That Image
Consider the code:
\documentclass[border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pstricks}
% Compiles with Xelatex
\begin{document}
%\psset{unit=2}
\begin{pspicture} %[showgrid=true]
(-3,-3)(9,9)
\psframe*[...
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Miktex not compiling TexStudio
I am using a Win 10 Home, and currently almost two days trying to compile a folder with Tex files belonging to my master thesis. I had no problem in my former computer under repair, however I tried ...
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tikzpicture ends up way outside the limits of the page
In my document which is defined as A4, I want to place our logo in the upper left corner of the first page. The code I'm using for this is:
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[...
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