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wxLua in LuaLaTeX
I have some problems using wxLua in LuaLateX.
This works:
lua simpleui.lua
(print instead of tex.print)
But if i try this:
lualatex wx.tex
it doesn't work.
\documentclass{article}
\directlua{...
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Bibliography style per language with biblatex/polyglossia?
This is a followup to Russian and Japanese and biblatex oh my. I've got a lot further now, using the polyglossia-enabled bib latex and writing my own Japanese csquotes and lbx files, but now I'm ...
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How to best make the transition from LaTeX2e to expl3 syntax
I was peeking at the LaTeX3 github repository and specifically l3auxdata.dtx. There was a surprise for me, as I have been practicing and studying the expl3 syntax and modules for the last couple of ...
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Using XMLTeX to typeset OpenDocument Text
I know that XMLTeX has already been used to typeset TEI documents, but has anyone publicly worked on a set of environment files and stylesheets to typeset OpenDocument Text? I have been looking for ...
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Is there a reliable way to get the number of arguments of a command?
While pondering over a test to distinguish two versions of a command I came up with the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\def\testA#1{\#2->blabla}
\typeout{\meaning\...
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What is “the” LUA root for context packages?
As package author, I want to write a LUA module which can be found by both lualatex and context.
The lualatex prototype works reasonably and I am convinced that this will also be true if I release ...
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Changing colors of included cmyk jpg
I am trying to convert a pdf containing grayscale pictures and black text into shades of a single color in cmyk color space (for printing). I was thus very happy to learn, from a side remark in one ...
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Indent text without using trivlist
Quite a lot environments which change margins (e.g. center, quote, addmargin from KOMA) use internally trivlist. This has some drawbacks, e.g., when the list is directly between two sectioning ...
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Variable page break penalty for odd/even pages?
I am working on a document that has a large number of external Lilypond files included. These render quite well and (while a bit of a pain to use) lilypond-book is smart enough to render the music ...
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Is CTAN secure against attackers uploading bugged versions of well-known packages?
I was checking out how to make a CTAN package, and I was surprised that it does not involve making it account: you simply have to fill out a form. If you have a new version of a package, you simply ...
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How to use luatex's node.hpack so that marks, inserts and vadjusts migrate out?
TeX's hpack routine packages an hlist into a box. While doing that it looks at a global pointer adjust_tail and if that is not "null" it migrates some nodes to a separate list starting at adjust_head....
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Globally assigning a coffin
There is no macro \vcoffin_gset:Nnw. How can I achieve that result?
MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{expl3}\ExplSyntaxOn
\usepackage{mwe}
\newcommand\typesetit {\coffin_typeset:Nnnnn\...
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Inconsistent letterspacing (interword space) in pdflatex vs lualatex
In my documents I prefer text in small- and all-caps to be letter spaced. To that end I am using the letterspacing capabilities of the microtype package. Until now (with version 2.5 of microtype) I ...
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How to write an arara rule for knitr
I've been trying to write a rule for invoking knitr via arara, but I don't seem to know what I'm doing, apparently.
The arara manual explains how to define custom rules. To do so, it is necessary to ...
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TeXLive and MikTeX behave differently in handling BOM
It is a followup of my answer that has been converted to comment (click) posted several decades ago. Shortly speaking, MikTeX does not remove leading BOM but TeXLive does as shown in the following ...
