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XeLaTeX does not show latin extended characters with stix2

The stix2 package is just for pdflatex. For XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX you want to use unicode-math or, but I wouldn't recommend it, only set the main text fonts with fontspec. unicode-math \documentclass{...
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How to use a ligature that is in the dlig without using all of them

I'd use lualatex, but if using xelatex you can use a pair of character classes to insert a kern to suppress ligatures. \documentclass{book} \usepackage{junicode} \newXeTeXintercharclass\classt \...
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How to use a ligature that is in the dlig without using all of them

Since you've mentioned that you're willing to consider switching from XeLaTeX to LuaLaTeX, I can't resist pointing out that the selnolig package, while designed mainly to suppress certain ligatures ...
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Xelatex: missing character, but character is present in the font file (tbsp)

Make the character into a command that produces a thin space, if U+202F doesn't exist in the font. \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{...
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\nocite{*} causes Undefined control sequence at \printbibliography

As pointed out by David Carlisle, that undefined \ssr command at the end was hiding in a couple of my bibliography entries. Thank you all for the second look!
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Adding pdfs from custom directory inserts only one page

This issue is due to the primitive \detokenize that changes catcodes. Thereupon the check of the filename extension doesn't work correctly and pdfpages erroneously assumes that your file is not a PDF ...
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XeLaTeX does not show latin extended characters with stix2

While I recommend the same solution as @egreg, another workaround that enables the legacy 8-bit fonts in LuaLaTeX is \documentclass{article} \tracinglostchars=3 % Make missing characters an error. \...
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Lettrine and polyglossia error

Version 2.60 of lettrine.sty and after (current is 2.61) have been made compatible with bidi. Rather than using older versions of lettrine.sty, I recommend to just remove the file lettrine-xetex-bidi....
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Lettrine and polyglossia error

The bidi Arabic setup patches lettrine but does not account for more recent versions. See https://github.com/kvafa/bidi/issues/31 The simplest workaround is to tell lettrine to use an older version. ...
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