Questions tagged [xetex]
XeTeX is a Unicode-capable variant of the TeX engine. Use this tag if your question is about Xe(La)TeX specific problems and is not related to standard (La)TeX.
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Footnotes in xskak variation
In the following MWE (compiles with xelatex) footnotes work:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xskak}
\xskakset{style=UF}
\begin{document}
\chapter{The Evans Gambit}
The main line of the Evans ...
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Plans for evolution/support of {Xe|Lua[node|harf]}LaTeX?
Let me first give some context:
As far as I can see, the original TeX/LaTeX including rendering with pdflatex has been very reliably producing the same visual output for decades now and presumably ...
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How to wrap text around a custom float environment (video) while keeping proper float placement (top/bottom)?
I have a custom float-like environment called video, which I use to typeset video thumbnails, captions, and links. I need to wrap text around this float, similar to wrapfigure or floatflt, but still ...
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XeLaTeX vs. LuaLaTeX with special font
This time from me a question around a set of issues that can maybe actually be resolved in the near future, even though more likely via code changes than just configuration, but I am asking here first ...
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babel “onchar=ids fonts” not detecting Chinese text, in XeLaTeX?
I’m writing a multilingual document with English and Chinese. I’d like to use XeLaTeX with Babel’s onchar=ids fonts option to automatically detect language based on the source text, rather than ...
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big xelatex file does no longer compile under mac tahoe 26.1
A large xelatex file, about 1300 pages in pdf which has always been compiled without any problems on the mac os system does not compile any more. It seems that the file is causing a crash of latex. ...
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How can I adjust the font size ratio of superscripts and subscripts relative to the main font in mathematical formulas
How can I adjust the font size ratio of superscripts and subscripts relative to the main font in mathematical formulas, as well as their vertical position relative to the main text?
When using unicode-...
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I have converted my file into UTF8 but the czech characters appear wrongly rendered [closed]
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I have proceeded much but still some characters are wrong. E.g. the 3rd paragraph should read "koncepty řešení"
I have used this
/mnt/e/Strawberry2/c/bin/iconv.exe -t utf-8 th0.tex &...
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How to remove chapter 0 in frontmatter book class
I would like to get this style
Currently my MWE is
\documentclass[openany,fleqn]{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[margin=2cm,width=176mm,height=250mm]{...
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Drop cap (lettrine) not working with Bengali text using polyglossia and XeLaTeX
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I am trying to typeset Bengali text with a drop cap using the lettrine package together with polyglossia.
However, when I compile with XeLaTeX, it shows several errors:
Option clash for ...
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making the includepdf command better
I have a code like this:
And I wish to put the 2 pages closer the left one to the right and the right one to thye left. How can I achieve that?
\documentclass[landscape,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to replace "Notes for chapter X" with custom titles in enotez (TeX Live 2024)?
Here’s a minimal working example that reproduces the issue (compiled with XeLaTeX, TeX Live 2024 / 2025).
I would like to replace the automatic “Notes for chapter X” headings created by enotez with ...
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latexmk uses bibtex instead of biber when -outdir is specified
When I compile my document with
latexmk -xelatex main.tex
everything works fine — latexmk automatically uses biber as the backend for bibliography processing.
However, when I specify an output ...
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Reproduce an old textbook Esercizi di algebra Ragusa-Sparacino (dic 1992)
When I was a university student in the 1990s, I had bought the following book on Algebra Exercises, by Prof. Alfio Ragusa and Prof. Clara Sparacino.
I remember that many students had this textbook, ...
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Tikz generates auxlock file [closed]
(Apologies in advance for not having a reproducer. My document is very complicated.)
A document that used to work now generates an auxlock file, and that prevents the aux file from being generated, ...
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