Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Legrand Orange Book: title page out of alignment with XeTeX

[kdelwat]

Hi everyone,

Using the Legrand Orange Book template from http://www.latextemplates.com/template/ ... range-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 title and author) is smaller and out of alignment. Any help fixing this problem would be very appreciated!

The box is drawn by Tikz, but I can't find the problem with the relevant code:

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\begingroup
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\coordinate [below=12cm] (midpoint) at (current page.north);
\node at (current page.north west)
{\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[anchor=north west,inner sep=0pt] at (0,0) {\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{background}}; % Background image
\draw[anchor=north] (midpoint) node [fill=ocre!30!white,fill opacity=0.6,text opacity=1,inner sep=1cm]{\Huge\centering\bfseries\sffamily\parbox[c][][t]{\paperwidth}{\centering The Search for a Title\\[15pt] % Book title
{\Large A Profound Subtitle}\\[20pt] % Subtitle
{\huge Dr. John Smith}}}; % Author name
\end{tikzpicture}};
\end{tikzpicture}
\vfill
\endgroup

For comparison:

Pdflatex

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Xelatex

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[Johannes_B]

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

[kdelwat]

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
Result: incorrect alignment

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

1st run: xelatex
2nd run: pdflatex
Result: title doesn't show at all

[Vel]

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.

[kdelwat]

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 helpful! I'm pretty much locked-in to Xetex for font and Unicode support so I don't have another option.

[kdelwat]

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:

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\begingroup
\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]

\node[inner sep=0pt] (background) at (current page.center) {\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{background}};

\draw (current page.center) node [fill=ocre!30!white,fill opacity=0.6,text opacity=1,inner sep=1cm]{\Huge\centering\bfseries\sffamily\parbox[c][][t]{\paperwidth}{\centering The Search for a Title\\[15pt] % Book title
{\Large A Profound Subtitle}\\[20pt] % Subtitle
{\huge Dr. John Smith}}}; % Author name

\end{tikzpicture}
\vfill
\endgroup

[Vel]

Awesome, thanks for finding the solution! I'll implement it and push a new version of the template soon.

[Vel]

The template has been updated to include this change, v2.2.