Comments on: Fonts in LaTeX, Part One: XeLaTeX

By: Dario

Dario — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:26:34 +0000

I thought you might enjoy a short article I wrote on expert font features using XeTeX:

By: washburn

washburn — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:22:56 +0000

@Patrick: It looks like the problem is that you are not using a font that includes all of the necessary glyphs. It is pretty rare for a single font to include glyphs for all of those languages. So to typeset that document you are going to need to switch between multiple fonts.

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:16:02 +0000

Hi guys,

Thanks Greg and washburn, I seem to be making some progress here!

http://ruphus.com/code/unicodelatex/

So my goal is to get the extremely multilingual file

http://ruphus.com/code/unicodelatex/ohboy.tex

Into a pdf; I have had partial success:

http://ruphus.com/code/unicodelatex/ohboy.pdf

Next I’ll trying install the whole cd with the package manager as you recommend.

Thanks again

By: washburn

washburn — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:36:19 +0000

@Greg: Thanks! I’m glad that so many people seem to be benefiting from this information.

By: washburn

washburn — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:35:51 +0000

@Patrick: No, offhand I do not know what set of packages you would need to install to be sure you have installed the entirety of TeX Live. This is why I just recommend installing it yourself than using the package manager. As Greg pointed out, you probably need to at least install the lmodern package.

By: washburn

washburn — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:33:25 +0000

@Alan: Thanks! I just revised it a little to hopefully be clearer about installing the fonts.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:58:17 +0000

@ Patrick: sudo apt-get install lmodern

Thanks for the tips! I didn’t know about XeTaTeX, and it’s awesome.

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:04:22 +0000

I would *love* to figure out how to get utf-8 input files working with LaTeX under Ubuntu; I’ve been trying to do so for some time, with no success. I have a bunch of links to various things I’ve tried at http://del.icio.us/tag/latex+unicode .

Do you know what exactly does it takes to install the whole Texlive CD under Ubuntu? I’ve installed so many TeX packages with apt-get by now that I’m afraid I’ve lost track; I do have xelatex installed, though.

When I run your example document, I get:
$ xelatex gyre.tex
This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996-patch1 (Web2C 7.5.6)
%&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./gyre.tex
LaTeX2e
Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, pinyin, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/keyval.tex)))

! LaTeX Error: File `lmodern.sty’ not found.

By: Alan Schmitt

Alan Schmitt — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:33:16 +0000

Maybe you could expand on the font installation bit, saying that only the otf files are necessary.

Thanks a lot for this great tutorial, it worked out of the box here (I’m using TeX Live 2007).