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How to obtain Unicode value of vertical variant
This is a follow-up question to Is there a command like \left that does not require a \right?. I believe that I see a way to accomplish what I am trying to do, but it hinges on being able to obtain ...
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Writing ancient Complex Text Layout (CTL) text using Latex (the case of old Uyghur)
I want to write something in the Old Uyghur script. Unicode supports this script, and there is a well-developed font for this purpose: Noto Serif Old Uyghur. However, when I try to write using local ...
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Makeindex mangling multibyte characters
I am getting an error in my log file on the last page of my Index:
Invalid UTF-8 byte or sequence at line 2679 replaced by U+FFFD.
The index point responsible is generated (by XSLT, from an XML ...
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Compiling multi-script unicode LaTeX documents
I'm trying to write a latex document that supports arbitrary utf-8 encoded scripts. This is turning out to be surprisingly difficult. A key point is that I want to get this working without specifying ...
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XeLaTeX+polyglossia+french+biblatex complain about missing character (U+200B)
Note to inattentive users: please stop asking if Unicode char {U+200B} answers my question.
When using biblatex with XeLaTeX and polyglossia-french, I get the following error which seems to come from ...
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Circled numbers ?, ?, etc. as bullets and in paragraphs
I'm trying to use circled numbers (?, ?, etc.) as bullets and generally in text.
I'm using XeLaTeX from Pandoc, but I'm not afraid of some inline TeX expressions or editing the template that Pandoc ...
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Changing the directionality of Private User Area characters in the bidi code
I'm building a Hebrew font with about 9,000 additional glyphs. I first wanted to keep them without Unicode assignment and call them through OpenType features, but sadly, their number exceeds Adobe's ...
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Is the package xunicode still needed with XeLaTeX? [duplicate]
I searched all over and could not find a proper answer for this. If my document only uses OpenType fonts (e.g., NewCM10-Book, NewCMMono10-Book, NewCMMath-Book and Roboto), with fontspec and unicode-...
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Bolding IPA symbols with tipa
I am using the tipa package for IPA in my dissertation. I would like to bold certain symbols, and have tried, e.g.: \textbf{\textipa{\!d}}. However, they do not bold in Latex's default font (computer ...
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XeLaTeX + fontspec + StylisticSet changes underlying Unicode characters in the text
I have recently played a bit with OpenType features in some fonts for Insular variants of certain characters – and when I make a document containing characters like s, t, g and set the appropriate ...
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Double hyphen in Taiwanese language carries grammatical function
In the Taiwanese language, double hyphen carries grammatical function and is used frequently. Example:
āu--ji?t chiah koh lai. (Come again the day after tomorrow.)
āu-ji?t chiah koh lai. (Come again ...
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Automatically converting XeLaTeX document to work with pdflatex
I've got a Literate Agda document, which contains a large number of unicode characters. It builds nicely with XeLaTeX and life is good.
The problem is that arxiv only supports pdflatex, and I'd like ...
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How can I arrange it so that I can use Greek characters directly in my LaTeX sources?
Support for non-ASCII characters has come a long way since the 1980s, and today we are accustomed, as users of computing devices, to be able to insert arbitrary Unicode characters via differing ...
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Xetex and combining unicode characters
I decided to use the combining over arrows like the ones in the following characters: Ω?,M?,B?,Ω?,E?.
I am using xelatex already because I need the unicode support for other sorts of characters.
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\Umathaccent works with Type 1 fonts but not with OpenType
I am in the early stages of experimenting with accents in XeTeX/Unicode. This began because I wanted to be able to use MathTime Pro 2's bold and heavy accents without necessarily making the symbol ...
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