Questions tagged [xelatex]

XeLaTeX is LaTeX on top of a modified TeX engine for added Unicode and OpenType support

LaTeX macro package running with XeTex as the underlying engine (which extends TeX with rich Unicode and OpenType facilities), offering in particular new font selection mechanisms (fontspec package) and multilingual typesetting (polyglossia). More information is available at wikipedia.

230 questions
0
votes
2 answers

alternate row color with knitr:kable in R Markdown

I want to display alternating row colors using knitr:kablein R Markdown rendering PDF with xelatex. E.g. knitr::kable(mtcars,format="markdown")
Philipp R
  • 598
  • 6
  • 22
0
votes
1 answer

Pandoc, markdown to pdf doesn't wrap long words in paragraphs

I'm trying to generate a clean PDF from markdown using Pandoc and xelatex. When I convert : aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I end up having : Here is the command I…
Benoit Vanalderweireldt
  • 2,925
  • 2
  • 21
  • 31
0
votes
2 answers

Latex Letter template with sidebar

I'm looking for someone who can tell me how to make this letter template in LaTeX, i currently using a template made in word. I'm wondering where it's possible to make the same template in LaTeX. Background info: Two fonts are used: Garamond and…
0
votes
0 answers

use sphinx to generated pdf by latex, how to change the chapter font size and secion font size?

When I use sphinx to generated pdf , I do not know how to set package to change the chapter font size and section font size,main text font size?? How can I do this ?
liminkai
  • 71
  • 7
0
votes
1 answer

LaTeX: Extract numbers and letters from command variables and conversion to roman numerals

I'm writing a thesis and have been searching on many occasions trying to find a solution to my programming problem. Basically, I have a series of items that I've distinguished in my research data as "A1", "A2", "A3", … , "A13", "B1", B2", and so on.…
stahmo
  • 3
  • 1
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

Installing LaTex packages in rmarkdown

Can someone recommend a tutorial on how to install, add, and work with LaTex/MacTex packages in rmarkdown . For example how do you install packages such as amsmath and multline? Where do you go to look for the packages that are already installed?…
llewmills
  • 2,959
  • 3
  • 31
  • 58
0
votes
1 answer

Shiny + knitr does not load latex packages when compiling the documents

I have more open question about general problem with knitr that I recently discovered. When I compile documents via shiny simply with: output$report = downloadHandler( filename = reactive({paste0(input$filename,'.pdf')}), content =…
An economist
  • 1,301
  • 1
  • 15
  • 35
0
votes
1 answer

What is the proper way to enable character protrusion in xelatex?

I am using XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (part of TeX Live 2010). One of its new features is character protrusion, and I would like to use it in my documents. The problem is that I cannot make it work. XeTeX sample from xetex.tk wiki compiles…
fjarri
  • 9,546
  • 39
  • 49
0
votes
1 answer

Rmarkdown PDF citations not rendering correctly (csl issue?)

I'm getting to grips with writing publications in rmarkdown. No issues at all generating .html files, or .docx files, but when I generate .pdf files the citations don't seem to inherit the style defined in the .csl file. For example, with a numbered…
Jordan Mackie
  • 1,193
  • 10
  • 17
0
votes
1 answer

unable to display Chinese character by xelatex under OS X EI Caption and sublime 2

When I just recently update my OS X system, the pdf compiled by xelatex can no longer display Chinese (The characters are missing). I look at the log and it says This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99991 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded …
0
votes
1 answer

Drop shadow in knitr

I'm mixing knitr, beamer, and xelatex to make some slides to a lecture. I'd like to see my figures dropping shadows in order to make my presentation more fancy. I found this great way to drop shadows from regular figures, but I couldn't make it work…
Marcus Nunes
  • 851
  • 1
  • 18
  • 33
0
votes
1 answer

File q.sty not found Latex Linux

I'm trying to compile this document (Plasmati Graduate CV) I got with xelatex and it complains about not finding q.sty. For all the other missing files I could just Google or search in the Synaptic Package Manager but I guess with the short filename…
Simen Russnes
  • 2,002
  • 2
  • 26
  • 56
0
votes
1 answer

How to use MusiXTeX to draw chord brackets at the right side of chord?

I am using MusiXTeX but have found that it's official document haven't said anything about placing a right-side bracket onto a chord. Could anyone please tell me how to achieve it? (If I use left-side bracket, it could across through those…
Shiki Suen
  • 67
  • 1
  • 9
0
votes
1 answer

How to change macro escape char in Apache Velocity

I'm using apache velocity in front of LaTeX. The # and $ escape chars are conflicting with LaTeX. I want to replace # with %% and $ with @@ to avoid the conflicts. Simply using a string replace on the source file code is not a good solution because…
nagylzs
  • 3,954
  • 6
  • 39
  • 70
0
votes
1 answer

How to use DIN FF font in LaTeX?

I am trying to use DIN FF font in LaTeX with the fontspec package. The font is installed in OSX: In LaTeX I tried: \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{DIN} \setmainfont{DIN FF} \setmainfont{DIN Regular} ... Nothing seems to work. With DIN alone…
fusio
  • 3,595
  • 6
  • 33
  • 47
1 2 3
15
16