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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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What are the differences between XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX?

There are multiple TeX typesetting engines. Both commands (pdflatex and xelatex) generate a PDF. What is the technical/effective/historical/etc. difference between these two commands? I'm using TeX Live.
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Do you use XeTeX or pdfTeX?

As far as I understand it (a few days of research here and there), there are two major TeX engines: pdfTeX and XeTeX. pdfTeX is the "standard", having been around since the early 1990s, renders straight to PDF, and improves on some minor formatting…
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Markdown to PDF using Pandoc since Xetex Deprecation

On my MacBook (OSX Mountain Lion), I used to use this Pandoc command to convert Markdown to PDF: $ markdown2pdf -N -o pandoc_output.pdf --xetex --toc --template=mytemplate.tex myfile.md But markdown2pdf no longer works, and --xetex option in…
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How to get a list of all available (TTF-) Fonts with XeTeX?

Very neat that I can use any available TrueType font on my Windows machine with MikTex and XeTeX. %!TEX TS-program = xelatex %!TEX encoding = UTF-8…
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xelatex Invalid fontname

I want to use the openoffice chinese fonts, eg AR PL SungtiL GB, but the xelatex tells me that it is an invalid name (as shown below). It seems like the font name has spaces and so it doesn't recognize it? How should I get around this?…
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Hide latex (auctex) output buffer

When I compile a (Xe)LaTeX file, emacs writes the output to the LaTeX output buffer and shows it. For pure LaTeX, this buffer is hidden. How do I hide a Latex compilation buffer?
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Conditionally execute a macro depending on the font used

I’m a big fan of ampersands – so much that I heed SimpleBits’ advice to “use the best available ampersand” quite religiously. For that purpose, I’ve defined the following shortcut in…
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TeX Font Mapping

I am using a package written on top of XeLaTeX. This package uses fontspec to specify fonts for different parts of your text: latin, non-latin, math mode, ... The package comes with several sample files. I was able to xelatex most of them that…
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r rticle package stopped compiling after recent updates

The following code worked fine when I submitted an article this summer but no longer works following recent updates. (R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31, R Studio 2022.12.0 Build 353, rticles 0.24). --- title: "test" author: - name: JB MD PhD email:…
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How Can I Render Xetex Using Swift

I am working on a Cocoa application using Swift 4.0 and I am trying to render LaTeX using a xetex compiler. The main draw of my application is that it's supposed to be able to render using different .ttf's so that's why I believe I need xetex (or…
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XeTeX - Detect when re-run is needed

I'm trying to determine when a re-run of Xe(La)TeX is required because of undefined references. I've posted a related question on the SCons mailing list, and the problem is as follows: Page counts and other references that require multiple runs of…
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How to cope with this error while compiling latex with vscode?

I followed several tutorials on the Internet and tried to build a latex environment in vscode. However, after I've installed everything and started running a .tex file, it came up with the following error: Qt: Untested Windows version 6.2…
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Formatting of Strings in Latex in whitespace insensitive environment / Z-Notation Schema

I'm using latex to model a few functions using Z-Notation, however, I'm having issues showing a string for output. In this reduced example code, the text in the quotes has a different formatting from what I would expect. What can I use to keep the…
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Line spacing problem with \LaTeX{}

When I use \LaTeX{} to show the LaTeX logo, the following line of text is pushed down in order to accommodate the subscript 'E' in LaTeX. How do I override this? Is there an option I can pass to \LaTeX{} ? EDIT: Problem was due to horizontal space,…
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How to increase the spacing between two rows in a four-subfigure plot using Quarto's custom layout?

How can I increase the spacing between two rows in a four-subfigure plot using Quarto custom layout? I'm using Jupyter-lab for coding and Quarto to render pdf. And I have a four-subfigure plot like the one below (modified from the example in…
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