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Writing μ (mu) in the text mode using Latin Modern Roman font

Latin Modern does not have Greek, but it does have micro (U+00B5) which is the most common use of an isolated mu in latin script. \documentclass{article} \tracinglostchars=3 \usepackage[english, ...
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Writing μ (mu) in the text mode using Latin Modern Roman font

You can use a substitute font just for \mu \documentclass{article} \usepackage[english, bidi = basic, layout = lists]{babel} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{newunicodechar} \babelfont{rm}[ ...
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Writing μ (mu) in the text mode using Latin Modern Roman font

Egreg shows how to do a font-family substitution due to one character in LaTeX. Just for comparison, how to solve the analogical task in opTeX: \fontfam[New CM] % this family is accessible by \...
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Why is the STIX2 bold math font not being used here?

By default unicode-math (as in classic pdflatex) sets up mathbf to use the bold Roman text font, which is Noto Serif here. You can use \symbf when it will use 𝐯 the bold math upright from Stix Two ...
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\usepackage{newtxtext, newtxmath} does not work

You provided no usable code but \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Times New Roman} \begin{document} abc \end{document} will work on Overleaf with xelatex (or lualatex) and ...
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TL 2023 fontspec fatal error

L3 programming layer <2023-10-23> (/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty Package: expl3 2023-11-01 L3 programming layer (loader) shows that you have version 2023-11-...
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LuaLaTeX adds spaces between glyphs of a font, while XeLaTeX does not

Updated answer Thanks to Marcel for pointing out that my answer below is factually wrong (one can perhaps still use it as a kind of workaround, and I let it stand for completeness). I apologize for ...
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\usepackage{newtxtext, newtxmath} does not work

With XeLaTeX, just use: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{newtx}
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