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What free math font could/should accompany Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum?
A late answer (and a shameless plug), but I have been working on math companion to Linux Libertine fonts, which got more attention recently (thanks to support from TUG) and it is starting to take ...
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Libertine font numbers have a different height than text
The height of numbers in some fonts tend to be optimised for appearance in normal text which means that they usually are slightly smaller than the height of the upper case glyphs.
This however ...
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Is it possible to use Linux Libertine as a mathematical font?
To provide a more current answer to this, there is now Libertinus, a fork of Linux Libertine with bug fixes and pretty nice math support (check out this example document).
\documentclass[varwidth,...
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Why Does Word Spacing Change Drastically When Using Libertine/Libertinus with the Various LaTeX Engines?
If you add
\typeout{\the\font}
\typeout{\the\fontdimen2\font} %space
\typeout{\the\fontdimen3\font} %stretch
\typeout{\the\fontdimen4\font} % shrink
\typeout{\the\fontdimen7\font} % punct
after \...
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When should package fontenc be used with pdflatex?
There is no simple answer to this. Or, rather, you already know the simple answer. In general, I would recommend
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
unless you know you need something different. In general, ...
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Microtype's tracking feature works with some fonts, not others
with Alegreya small caps are a family and not a shape and so the default settings of microtype don't affect them. You must activate tracking yourself:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[tracking = ...
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Linux libertine, the {\l} character, ligatures, and T1 fontenc
Load T1 before OT1, undeclare \l as an OT1 command and declare its default to be T1:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1,OT1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{libertine}
\UndeclareTextCommand{\l}{OT1}
\...
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Specifying proportional numbers when using Libertine with pdfLaTeX
Here’s an answer for the current libertine version of 2014/11/25, since lockstep’s answer doesn’t work anymore with this current version (probably due to the changes in maintainer and conception since ...
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What free math font could/should accompany Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum?
You can consider newtxmath with the libertine option. The math fonts used are not OpenType, so no unicode-math, but the result is pretty good. The order of packages is important.
\documentclass{...
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replace capital ›ẞ‹ with ›ss‹ when using small caps
I believe it should be a law that any font providing the utterly ugly ẞ character must provide a stylistic set for replacing it with “SS”.
But you're lucky: not with Linux Libertine, but with its (...
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Linux Biolinum Keyboard missing euro currency symbol
Bad hack: use the keyboard centered dot, cover the dot with a white larger centered dot and print the Euro symbol above it.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage{xcolor,graphicx}
...
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Math digits are rendered in CM when using libertine and newtxmath with XeLaTeX in TeX Live 2016
Somewhere in the various passages, the mathcode of the digits gets assigned wrongly.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
\...
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symbol \eth already defined when using libertinus(-otf) and lualatex [pandoc]
The default pandoc template has
100 \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
101 \usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
102 \ifnum 0\ifxetex 1\fi\ifluatex 1\fi=0 % if pdftex
103 \usepackage[$if(fontenc)$$fontenc$$else$...
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LuaLaTeX + libertine... the issue of math font
Since you give the no-math option, you have to help fontspec:
\documentclass[]{scrbook}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
\...
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What is the default font used in table environment?
Whatever the main font for the document is, will be the font for the table, if the table contains only text. If the table contains things in math mode, then TeX will use the default math font.
Some ...
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What does \renewcommand*{\rmdefault}{fxlj} exactly do?
This is a consequence of using low level commands in documents instead of packages.
When you compile your document, you get the warnings
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/fxlj/m/n' undefined
(Font)...
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Ligatures with Libertine: issue with pdflatex (and Windows)
Add
\input glyphtounicode
\pdfgentounicode=1
glyphtounicode.tex contains a lot of mappings like
\pdfglyphtounicode{ffi}{0066 0066 0069}
which are added to the pdf and helps the viewer to ...
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"Different" looking question mark
You can use the text fonts or images
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
$?\,\textbf{?}\,\textit{?}\,\textsf{?}\,\includegraphics[height=.7em]{q}$
\end{document}
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Function restriction with Libertinus Math
The OpenType version of Libertinus Math has ↾ (U+21BE), and unicode-math supports it as \upharpoonright. Output with LuaLaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertinus} % Load the OpenType ...
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What free math font could/should accompany Linux Libertine and Linux Biolinum?
(answer copied from here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/364502/75284)
Libertinus is a fork of Linux Libertine with bug fixes and pretty nice math support (see this example document). It is the ...
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Misplaced Accents in Cyrillic Text
It seems a bug in the fonts: here's the output I get with from the following input (where fixes to the original code are applied):
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{...
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Combining diacritical mark is misaligned with luatex, but not with xetex
The issue is fixed with Libertinus Serif (a fork of Linux Libertine).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[BoldItalicFont = {* Semibold Italic}]{Libertinus Serif}
\begin{...
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Ångström sign not outputting correctly with libertine OT1 font
The command \AA is not encoding specific and this is the reason for the error: its definition is \r{A}. Unfortunately, the ring accent macro in OT1 encoding doesn't work well with the Libertine font, ...
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Libertine Font not found (texLive)
I have {sudo} permissions and my current configuration is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I faced this warning while running the ACM sigconf conference proceedings format for a research paper submission. The ...
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"Different" looking question mark
The behavior of the character ? in math is defined by
\DeclareMathSymbol{?}{\mathclose}{operators}{"3F}
so it isn't affected by math alphabet changing commands such as \mathsf. You can define
\...
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Typesetting special characters from European and Asian languages with the fewest potential side effects
As of 2021, I’d say the format most likely to work with no problems is UTF-8 in NFC form. Fortunately, the vast majority of text you will encounter is already in this form. PDFTeX cannot support ...
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Function restriction with Libertinus Math
Looking in website you can declare or use one symbol. Hence
it is very important to know the number of the slot {"16} for \upharpoonright symbol.
\DeclareMathSymbol{\upharpoonright}{\mathrel}{...
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Function restriction with Libertinus Math
Sadly the libertinust1math fonts do not include that particular harpoon. Sebastiano has shown how to import it from the AMSa symbols. I propose here two further alternatives:
Instead of ...
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Microtype's tracking feature works with some fonts, not others
You can use the otfinfo command to find information about a particular OpenType or TrueType font. In particular, use the -f flag to find about the features that it supports.
It seems that, in ...
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