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I am using the XeTex typesetting system on a Macintosh running Snow Leopard. I would like it to produce a PDF/X-1a file.
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I have a hard time contrasting XeTeX and LuaTeX.
At the moment, I am using XeTeX almost exclusively, mainly because it uses UTF-8 as the native input encoding and because it supports TTF and OTF fonts.
However, the lack of support for pdftex’ microtyping is mildly annoying.
LuaTeX, on the other…
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Using XeTeX there are many working files that get created in process of producing the pdf, and they litter the directory where my main .tex file is. Is it possible to change the working directory of XeTeX so that it stores all these scratch files in some other directory, out of the way?
There is…
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I have started to use an enterprise specific class for LaTeX, but have got a problem with usage system fonts in Ubuntu. The class uses the fontspec package, I have therefore been instructed to use XeTeX (i.e. the command xelatex instead of latex or pdflatex). However, the command xelatex testfile…
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I am using the XeTex typesetting system on a Macintosh running Snow Leopard. I would like it to produce a PDF/X file. Is this possible? I am mainly concerned with ensuring the fonts are embedded.
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I am using the XeTex typesetting system on a Macintosh running Snow Leopard. I would like it to produce a PDF/X-1a file.
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I followed the advice of izx on how to install TexLive 2012 using the texlive-backports PPA. Before I started I removed all TexLive-related packages. The installation finished and everything seems to work fine. The only thing I noticed are some warnings in the output of the installer. Here is an excerpt…
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Is there a way to get some text to appear only when the [draft] option is active.
For example, when the draft option is active, I want some text to appear between my title and abstract: "draft: do not cite without permission" or some such.
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How can I replace all occurrence of user defined latex macros with their definitions?
For example, given this file
old.tex
\newcommand{\blah}[2]{#1 \to #2}
...
foo \blah{egg}{spam} bar
...
how to generate the file below in an automatic way
new.tex
...
foo egg \to spam bar
...
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maybe is a noob question but i can't find the solution in the web, i need to write C++ in Latex.
I write C$++$ but the result is like crap, the signs are too big and there is too much space between C and the first plus sign.
Previously i needed to write the sharp symbol for C#....c$\sharp$ it also…
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I have a clean CentOS 5.5 machine with tetex installed. Next, I installed PGF/TikZ:
wget http://media.texample.net/pgf/builds/pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip
unzip pgfCVS2010-06-02_TDS.zip
\cp -r tex /usr/share/texmf
texhash
I'm trying to compile a simple document and this is what I'm getting:
$ latex…
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