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by zauguin
Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:39 pm
Forum: Fonts & Character Sets
Topic: fontspec cannot resolve font
Replies: 1
Views: 5141

fontspec cannot resolve font

Generally fontspec only expects a name for the font in it's main argument, ll other options are given in a separate optional argument. So all the things you wrote between `{}` need to go between `[]` and you additionally need to provide some name in `{}`. So e.g.


\documentclass{memoir ...
by zauguin
Thu Oct 14, 2021 6:25 pm
Forum: XeTeX
Topic: ligatures not forming with some fonts with XeLaTeX
Replies: 4
Views: 39386

ligatures not forming with some fonts with XeLaTeX

The same problem occurs with the Georgia font which is readily available on Linux.


For Georgia (at least the Georgia version in my system, 5.59) the ligatures you are looking for are defined as "Discretionary Ligatures" and not as "Default Ligatures" in the font file and are therefore disabled ...
by zauguin
Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:06 am
Forum: General
Topic: Own text rendering
Replies: 1
Views: 2064

Own text rendering

Hi,

If you want to customize the word spacing and the justification, you can use Lua(La)TeX: There you can overwrite the `linebreak_filter` callback. This callback replaces the built-in logic for breaking paragraphs into lines. You get a list of nodes, representing the text of the paragraph, passed ...
by zauguin
Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: expl3: don't understand behavior of tl_if_novalue:nTF
Replies: 1
Views: 5063

expl3: don't understand behavior of tl_if_novalue:nTF

Actually this is the expected behaviour even if the documentation is a bit misleading:

\tl_if_novalue:nTF tests if the token list is exactly equal to c_novalue_tl , meaning equal to the special token list which is stored inside c_novalue_tl . This is not the same as {c_novalue_tl} , the token list ...