BibTeX, biblatex and biber

Linguist · Post by **Linguist** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:18 am

Hello,

It is standard in bibliographies for the title of a book to be in italics. However, I've recently found that the use of mathspec (or fontspec) "turns off" all the italics in my bibliography. Does any-one know a simple way to resolve this?

I've tried this with several different bibliography styles and the same issue occurs. When I use mathspec (or fontspec) the title is not in italics, when I comment it out the title is correctly in italics.

MWE:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{mathspec}
\begin{document}
\cite{test}
\bibliographystyle{linquiry2}
\bibliography{Test}
\end{document}

The code for the bibliography entry in Test.bib:

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@Book{test,
  Title                    = {A title that should be italics},
  Address                  = {Address},
  Author                   = {Surname, Firstname},
  Publisher                = {Publisher},
  Year                     = {Year},
}

The style linquiry2 (which I normally use) is attached. As previously stated, this issue occurs also with other .bst styles.

I'm using the latest version of miktex. This wasn't an issue last year (with an older distribution?)

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Post by **Johannes_B** » Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:31 pm

Make sure to get the very recent updates my making another MikTeX update.

Thanks to the TeX Chat for having a look.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:24 am

Seems like you need to update fontspec. But as Johannes said, better update the whole MiKTeX.
If you would see other issues, note that theres another fine LaTeX software: TeX Live for Windows.

Stefan

Linguist · Post by **Linguist** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:10 pm

Hello,

Currently the problem persists.

I uninstalled MiKTeX and downloaded the latest version (which was what I had anyway, but I re-downloaded) it and the problem persisted. I ran the update and I saw that fontspec had an update, but when I try to update it I get the following error message:

Sorry, but something went wrong:
The executed process did not succeed.
fileName="C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\initexmf.exe", arguments="--force --mklinks --verbose", exitCode="1"

So I can't update fontspec to see if that would fix the problem because the MiKTeX updater is stuffin up. Ugh. I can't find an obvious solution for a similar MiKTeX problem online. But maybe I should start a new thread for this...

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:06 pm

Perhaps try TeX Live. It's developed by group with support by the TeX Users Group, while MiKTeX is a one-man-project. TeX Live gets a news release every year, after a thorough testing phase by users on several operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux).

Stefan

Linguist · Post by **Linguist** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:28 pm

Thanks,

Yup, using TeX Live solves the issue! Yay!

Using TeX Live also resolves some warnings XeLatex was throwing up concerning xdvipdfmx. I'll post here so that people using MiKTeX who are googling around trying to resolve them (like I was a week or two ago...) can find this post and hopefully solve them too.

xelatex> xdvipdfmx

JPEG: Inconsistent resolution may have specified in Exif and JFIF: 180x180 - 96x96
xelatex> xdvipdfmx

JPEG: Inconsistent resolution may have specified in Exif and JFIF: 180x180 - 96x96
...
xelatex> xdvipdfmx

Object @Hfootnote.150 already defined.
...
xelatex> xdvipdfmx