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.

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TeXShop setting of UTF-8 is broken

for a long time, I tried to set up XeLaTeX to work with UTF-8 correct. Silly me! A couple of days ago I have figured out, that XeLaTeX is working correct. When I edit or create a file using vi for example, everything works like a charme. But when I…
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Can I use the \LaTex logo using the XeLaTex compiler?

I want to use the \LaTex logo for a XeLatex template that I am using. I get the following error: ! Undefined control sequence \LaTex I think this is a dumb question but I didn't find any suitable answer searching online. Please tell me if you need…
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xelatex and tikz hyperlink nodes don't seem to link

I followed the recipe at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36109/making-tikz-nodes-hyperlinkable to create nodes that are clickable links to other places in the document. The node links work when built with lualatex, but don't seem to work…
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Questions about the correct use of matplotlib rcParams

I'm writing a report for my physic experiment. For this I use PyLab64bit, XeLaTex, Excel. I write the measurements in an excel sheet and then use import -xlrd to get the data for the .py script with which I do the plots and calculations. The plots…
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How to make annotated index in LaTeX?

I am writing a grammar textbook in LaTeX and I am trying to make annotated index of vocabulary. For example, in the main body of the document we have a sentence in Icelandic: Stóð þá Egill upp ok leiddi Ǫlvi útar til *duranna* ok helt á sverði sinu.…
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How to make babel correctly use special Persian Unicode characters?

I try to create a bilingual document in English with parts in Persian and want to use babel (please do not suggest using polyglossia instead, since I want to use a more complex document class and polyglossia seems to break it). It works fine with…
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Cleverref shows extra question sign in Latex

There are two extra question signs when I use cleveref package. How can I remove them? when I reference to two labels: here is the output: ?? 16 ?? 15 I'm compiling using Xelatex. I've prepared a minimal to compile ro reproduce the error: minimal to…
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LateX Tikz: How can I rotate a line

I tried to rotate a line, several lines, with scope, but I don't know how. \documentclass[tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \usetikzlibrary{arrows} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[] \coordinate (A) at (0,0); \coordinate…
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How do I render Greek characters in code chunks in Rmarkdown to pdf?

I use Rmarkdown to write python code and knit to pdf file for some reason... I want to use and display greek characters like lambda in my code. e.g. def function(X,Y,λ,h): # do stuff return w With default engine, it shows error message as…
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How to get a \leftmark without number?

I use the following code to make a header showing current section. \LoadClass[a4paper]{article} \RequirePackage{titlesec}…
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MikTex 22.8 Missing XeLaTex Command to be used with MATLAB

I have been using XeLaTex in a MATLAB in a code that I originally wrote 7 years ago in MATLAB. After my latest update to MikTex 22.8 the code no longer works and it generates an empty PDF file. The command that I used to use is the following xelatex…
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Applying operations from the `calculator` package to conditional numerical values

I'm writing a LaTeX template that works similar to a spreadsheet: One defines a small number of variables and the whole document is adjusted accordingly. I have three variables: Level, ProficiencyBonus and AbilityScore. Here is my…
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Generation of PDF file with XeLatex

I installed TexMaker, MikTex and a font package. I try to run a code on TexMaker, which tells me to compile with XeLatex because of the packages used. When I run with XeLatex, there don't seem to be mistake, but no PDF is generated. I can't…
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Pandoc Column Width for Twocolumn not working

I cannot get column width recognized. It is as if it is just ignored and each column is exactly 50% of the available space. Additionally the example implies I can tell it when I want the 2nd column to start but that is also ignored. The following is…
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I would like to give a Bounding Box value to a file (preferably guess automatically)

Description of the problem I have used PyPlot to save some plots. And, I'm trying to use them in LaTeX. But, then I get an error: ERROR: LaTeX Error: File path-to-file/file.bb' not found.` In normal files, I don't have to specify their Bounding…
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