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Thanks for your reply. Up till now I've used only the standard book and article classes (book for self-editing a friend's novels, article for scientific writing). In reaction to historical misuse of computing power, these deliberately encourage users to use only one font. KOMA-Script is new to me. T...

I'm thinking of moving from pdfLaTeX to XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex, and have read the users' part of the fontspec document and done a web search. Possibly I've missed something, but couldn't find information or examples on how to assign, in the preamble, a font or a font family to all elements in a documen...

Thanks for your reply Stefan. I tested the attached file about a month before posting here. As I said it worked on Overleaf and the clean Mint installation (Texlive 2016), but - as expected - not on Windows 10 (2 machines; one of these is the portable I want to use off-line). I no longer have the ol...

I've used LaTeX for several years on various Windows and Linux PCs, and lately in the cloud using Overleaf. This is mainly for scientific writing, though I did also typeset a novel for a friend. There were never any major difficulties till I started playing with tikz. With Vista and two Windows 10 m...