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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Create .bat to execute XeLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibLaTeX
Time ago I created a bat script to execute PDFLaTeX+MakeIndex+BibLaTeX so I can add as a processing tool in TeXworks (image below), and it was easy because I found many sites explaining how to do that ...
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microtype won't work in theorem environment, using Times New Roman
I'm using microtype package in my document. However, it won't fit to margin the text into the definition environment. Here is the code:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[protrusion=true]...
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Plot the following parametric equation on latex using PSTricks:
x = (cos(t^2))(1 - sint);
y = (sin(t^2))(1 + cost); -2/pi ≤ t ≤ 2/pi ;
The following was my approach to this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-plot}
\title{\textbf{\LARGE {Assignment}}}
...
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Simple regular expression matching using LaTeX
I would like to do some simple pattern matching in LaTeX, where a character in the pattern (e.g., shell like as in *, or regex like as in .*, I´ll use the latter) replaces zero or more characters in ...
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Using mathpazo's summation sign instead of newtxmath's
I have the following problem: I use the package newtxmath with option minion in order to use the Minion Pro font by Adobe for math typesetting (DO NOT TRY setting). However, the summation sign of ...
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Is there a better way to force a bit of whitespace on the last line of a paragraph?
I'm new to latex (XeTeX). My justified, 5-mm indented text is long; and at several places, the last line of a paragraph flushes completely right—creating possible irritation for the reader. To fix ...
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Error when creating latexpf from Sphinx link
This is part of the Sphinx document I'm trying to generate a pdf for:
Overview
--------
Use this `Cookiecutter <https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io>`_ template to generate
an empty Python ...
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Using \setmainlanguage{german} after \usepackage{polyglossia} leads to odd-looking capital umlaut letters when using EB Garamond
Pay attention to the style of the capital umlaut letters “ÄÖÜ” aud “ÄÖÜ” in both cases.
Example 1 (with \setmainlanguage{german}):
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\...
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Printing list of acronyms on the table of content
I am writing a thesis and I would like to produce Acronyms list and glossary in the table of content. This my latex here
\documentclass[8pt]{report}
%\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[toc,page]...
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Load order polyglossia & newtx under XeLaTeX
Why does loading polyglosssia first cause an option clash with newtxtext as in the following example? And is there a way to avoid the option while still loading polyglossia first? (Loading it after ...
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How to set reading order in the accessibility pdf
i am traying to create a accessible pdf with the help of pdfmanagement-testphase.sty and tagpdf.sty through xelatex, i need to set the reading order, for the below points,
when footnote link present, ...
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Are the Beige Fillcolors of These Two Pspictures Different; i.e., Picking Up the Hue of the Default Color?
Consider the following code which compiles with Xelatex:
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{pstricks,psvectorian}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\...
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Three Errors I don't understand (Overleaf and XeTeX)
I'm using overleaf for a QED and keep getting these errors. I had to use XeTeX to put it in times new roman (which is required) and I think that's why I'm getting all these errors. Also, how do I ...
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Remove or Change Color of a Pspicture Border
Consider the code (which compiles with XeLaTeX):
\documentclass[a5paper,12pt,onecolumn,openany,final]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0.7in,vmargin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,...
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xelatex stop running with no error raised
I run my tex file on CentOS7 using xelatex. I can see its progress in top but seems it stopped runnning with no error raised. And the final sentence on screen is:
(/project/RD/transcriptome/software/...
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How to remove font feature
Is there command to remove font feature that are added by \setmainfont or \setfontfamily. I know \addfontfeature to add font features.
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\RequirePackage[...
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This Code for Color Shading of Text Works with Pdflatex but Not Xelatex
Consider
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{scalerel} % For Vertical/Horizontal Stretch of Letters
\usepackage{pbsi} % for bsifamily font.
\newcommand\...
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XeLaTex/LuaLaTex not changing font in beamer
I am trying to compile the following, but when I compile it, the beamer presentation still has the default font. I cannot figure out why
\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usetheme{Goettingen}
\usepackage{...
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Using Chalkduster font in XeLaTeX correctly
I'm trying to use the Chalkduster font by adding in my preamble:
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Chalkduster}
\usepackage[defaultmathsizes]{mathastext}
After that, when ...
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One word in Sinhala in an English document using LaTeX
Is there a way to write just one word in Sinhala in otherwise English document using LaTeX? I am using Overleaf
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Inconsistent colours with acronym package
The following example produces an acronym list, where some items are coloured (and work as hyperlinks), whilst others are not:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{acronym}
\usepackage{css-colors}
\...
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Not rendering unicode, ξ, ϕ, etc., inside minted environment
Using xelatex, here is my MWE,
% Created 2021-10-30 Sat 14:35
% Intended LaTeX compiler: xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{longtable}
\...
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Footnote mark appears too big in tufte-book + xelatex
when trying to put a footnote in tufte-book with xelatex, the number on the text appears too big, not with the usual scriptsize. While the actual sidenote appears correctly formatted, as does a number ...
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Implementing Latex in our company
I am employee in mid-sized company (roughly 300 employees) which develops and manufactures some medical-related devices. For our devices, we need to write various manuals (roughly 20 people are ...
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XeLaTeX forward search does not work properly when a paragraph only have one word
When a paragraph has only one word, forward synctex search is wrong when compiled with XeLaTeX.
Create a TeX file (named for example a.tex)
%! TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{...
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Strange ```tableofcontents```error in XeTeX
I am currently typesetting a book with XeTeX and there's a strange error in overleaf:
\alloc@ ...else \errmessage {No room for a new #2}
\fi \fi
l.41 ...
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How to avoid the vertical spacing dispersion in the whole document?
I found that LaTeX automatically disperses the spacing in the vertical direction, which is similar to the vertical version of Justify or Distributed in word. This will lead to a problem, that is, ...
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Replace a single letter in xelatex
Is it possible to replace a single text letter of the current font in my document by another font that is available in my system. The rest of the characters of my current font should be retained. Is ...
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Polyglossia + Right-to-left language breaks tufte-book footnotes and sidenotes
I'm trying to write a document with tufte-book and polyglossia for a bit of hebrew inside english text. But the sidenote and footnote commands are not working.
%! TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass{...
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Using $\mathfrak$ for digits in XeTeX
I'm working on a XeTeX document and want to typeset digits or to be more precise, 1 and 0 as truth values in Fraktur via \mathfrak. I tried several tweaks and none helped. Would anyone know a ...
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is there any latex friendly lib for automatic generate tex document
Now in my database have some learning english words and some demo setence, I want to using this content to generate a simple latex document learning-eng.tex, is there any friendly lib to do this? I ...
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How to Automatically Produce Separated Words Using the Mathcal or Pazocal Fonts
Consider the code:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{calrsfs}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\pazocal}{OMS}{zplm}{m}{n}
\SetMathAlphabet\pazocal{bold}{OMS}{zplm}{bx}...
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Unable to compile a document containing autoref to figure labels using xelatex
When I try to build my document using xelatex when \autoref tries to reference a figure label
% !TEX program = xelatex
% !TEX options = -shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode %DOC%
% !BIB program = ...
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Text out of margin in latex multicols environment
I'm setting the margin configurations for multiple environments. For instances firstenvironment sets the margins using \setlength, then I make use of the multicols package inside the new environment. ...
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An odd behaviour when I use center environment, itemize/enumerate environment and braced \item as the first item [duplicate]
So, I'm coding my note while I run into the following odd behaviour. So, if I first use \begin{center} \end{center} to wrap my contents, and create a list inside using \begin{itemize} \end{itemize}, ...
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Problem setting a main font
Perhaps I am missing something obvious here, but I am a bit confused and therefore coming up with this question.
I want to change the default "Latin Modern" font to something else. At the ...
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Left justify a text
I want to left justify the numbers when in right aligned text.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
some random text. \null\hfill 1 \\
some random text. \null\hfill 2 \\
some random text. \null\...
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Incompatible and Displaced Preamble Packages
So, I have been receiving lots of errors while compiling LaTeX files and I was wondering if it had to do anything with the preamble and the order of packages. Here is the preamble. Would anyone be ...
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Greek symbols in glossaries with fontspec and lmodern
I created a list of symbols and a list of abbreviations with glossaries-extra in which both symbols and abbreviations are typeset with bold font. Further, I'd like to use abbreviations and symbols ...
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Kannada page numbers in xelatex
I am not able to get page numbers in Kannada even after i set it as my main language.
\setmainlanguage[numerals=Kannada]{kannada}
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VimTex: cannot create directory build_dir, permission denied
It's been a while since I've been using VimTeX with XeLaTeX from NeoVim. I had to install TeXLive in a new machine and suddenly the following error started to appear everytime I wanted to compile ...
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R Markdown failed to render PDF and render .tex instead
I have been using RMarkdown via R Studio to render PDF for a while but suddenly it failed to render PDF with the following error. Instead of PDF, it render a .tex file which I'm unsure why.
"C:/...
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Package polyglossia Error
I updated Mactex 2021 today and got errors:
1- Extra \endgroup. \begin{document}
2- Package polyglossia Error: right-to-left, but (lua)bidi package was not loaded!. \begin{document}
When I had a ...
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How change paper size in ElegantBook class?
I would like to get paper size A6 (105mm x 148mm). I have used paper=a6paper in document class option, but it is not working. Any suggest is appreciated in advance.
MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,fancy,...
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Mixing spot colors in xespotcolor
I have been asked to produce a PDF file with PANTONE spot colors. I used the following code (from a previous post) in XeLaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pantone]{xespotcolor}
\...
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PSTricks and XeLateX issue
Since updating to MacTeX 2021 my pstricks files don't compile anymore. I've been searching for the solution but the ones suggested don't seem to work (e. g. using xelatex -output-driver="...
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faulty german hyphenation in XeLaTeX
As you see in the picture beneath some words, not only "Gegenüberstellung" the hyphenation is not correct, at the right site of the paper. Unfortunately the different questions relating this ...
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Why is section number and name displayed in the top right?
I've compiled an old *.tex file today using the xelatex command and something new has shown up, which wasn't there when I compiled the file previously - namely, the number and name of the last section ...
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Unable to disable ligatures for TrueType Collection in XeLaTeX
I'm writing a resume in XeLaTeX and I'd like to disable ligatures in my document so the text is properly parsed by ATS.
I was able to disable ligatures for my OTF font but I'm having trouble with my ...
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XeLaTeX does not show diacritics characters correctly with EB Garamond font in docker container
On my MacOS with brew mactex-no-gu installed all works fine. Diacritics in generated PDF by XeTeX is displayed correctly.
Now I am trying to prepare docker image with XeTeX but there is a problem with ...
