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by kdelwat
Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:23 am
Forum: Theses, Books, Title pages
Topic: Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX
Replies: 7
Views: 8902

Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX

In case anyone stumbles across this page with the same problem, I managed to get it working!

The problem was the nested tikzpicture environments. Replacing those with a simpler solution did the trick. The new title page code is as follows:

\begingroup
\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{tikzpicture ...
by kdelwat
Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:55 pm
Forum: Theses, Books, Title pages
Topic: Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX
Replies: 7
Views: 8902

Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX

Just had a quick look at this and I can confirm this behavior. I've never actually tried compiling it with XeLaTeX but I can see how you'd need to if you want to use a custom font.

I'll fix up the template and release a new version once we figure out what's going on.

Thanks, that would be really ...
by kdelwat
Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:57 am
Forum: Theses, Books, Title pages
Topic: Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX
Replies: 7
Views: 8902

Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX

Without having tested anything: did you do multiple compile runs?

Yes, I have tried that already. Your post inspired me to do a bit more experimentation and I'm getting the following strange results:

1st run: pdflatex
2nd run: pdflatex
Result: correct alignment

1st run: xelatex
2nd run: xelatex ...
by kdelwat
Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:32 am
Forum: Theses, Books, Title pages
Topic: Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX
Replies: 7
Views: 8902

Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX

Hi everyone,

Using the Legrand Orange Book template from http://www.latextemplates.com/template/the-legrand-orange-book , I have run into a problem with the title page. When using pdflatex to compile the document, the title page is correctly aligned, but using xelatex the center box (containing the ...