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XeTeX is a TeX typesetting engine. Note that https://tex.stackexchange.com is specifically dedicated to XeTeX questions.

XeTeX is a typesetting engine. There is a Stack Exchange site dedicated to TeX, which is a good place to ask any TeX-related questions.

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using an unicode code in a latex-document

I am writing a danish document. I want to use an old glyph unicode no: U+2184 [or U+0254, U+0186]. I do not succeed. Why and how should I proceed? % !TEX TS-program = xelatex % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 \documentclass{memoir} \begin{document} Der var en…
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Error when running latexpdf for Cookiecutter template

This is part of the Sphinx document I'm trying to generate a PDF for: Overview -------- Use this `Cookiecutter `_ template to generate an empty Python package. Features include: * Boilerplate tests and…
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how to resolve error using Cambria font in make4ht

I need to compile my .Rnw (Sweave) file into HTML, using Cambria as the default font and UTF-8 encoding so that e.g. Greek letters are represented correctly as characters in inline text (obviously equation mode is fine since those are embedded as…
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How do I debug my Tex installation such that XeLatex will work on Ubuntu 20.04?

I am attempting to compile a LaTex document on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS using XeLatex. I have been trying to do so from within TexStudio, but haven't had much luck. As a debugging step, I attempted to compile the document from the command line as…
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How to use Avenir in Latex

How can I use font which is called with Avenir in latex? When I use the following \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Avenir} I am getting following error: The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or LuaTeX
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fontspec (xetex/luatex) and fontconfig

LuaTeX and XeTeX are passing on a warning on from the fontspec package, and I'm not sure whether I should worry. The following minimal code will generate the…
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Undefined control sequence error while converting from markdown to PDF with pandoc and xelatex

I'm making some documentation for our project, but I can't enable xelatex in pandoc to setup custom fonts. If I set --latex-engine xelatex pandoc will show that error: pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source. ! Undefined control sequence. l.17…
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XeTeX (via TexShop) font rendering partially broken on Snow Leopard

Certain elements (such as grqq{} quotes or decimals from the dcolumn package) are missing when rendering with TexShop and XeTeX on Mac OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard). Switching to the dvipdfmx engine did not help, it only misses other characters. My…
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Is there a way to index through objects dnyamically in Scriban with C#?

Working on a PDF generator and it uses the Templating Engine Scriban and LaTeX. Although I cannot seem to reference the C# object Scriban is trying to read via index notation (use the data at this index of the array). I mean something like…
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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…
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Use Python to generate input to XeTeX

I am wondering what is a good way to use Python to generate an arithmetic worksheet consisting only of 2-digit numbers squared. Specifically I want to be able to call upon a Python program in which it asks me for parameters such as the range of the…
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Why php exec() fails .tex→xelatex→.pdf, but succeed .tex→xelatex→.xdv→xdvipdfmx→.pdf?

The call of command: $dir = "/path/to/source/file"; exec("cd $dir;xelatex filesource.tex", $output_array[0]); always fails, but: $dir = "/path/to/source/file"; exec("cd $dir;/usr/texbin/xelatex -no-pdf filesource.tex", $output_array[0]);// now we…
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