TeX, LaTeX and Friends

Q: Correct left aligning items in simplecv (LyX)

lol

not gonna lie, I had some fun with it:

percusse

1:25 AM

On a hasty review decision, I've voted for the following question but I wish hadn't :) From the comments I think this should stay open :

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The simplecv class (for LyX), provides the Itemize environment which is defined in simplecv.layout as follows: Style Itemize Margin Static LatexType Item_Environment LatexName itemize NextNoIndent 1 LeftMargin MMN ...

tohecz

7:00 AM

@GTK Yeah, SO is screwed.

7:12 AM

@GTK The original question on the Mathematica site is still open :-)

Peter Grill

Exact Duplicate (accidentally reposted) needs votes to close: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/75263/…

@Gnintendo: EBGaramond (like Libertine) is an open-source font. You can include it in your directory if you want. You can even use a git submodule in order to do so since EBGaramond is on github.

7:37 AM

@DavidCarlisle A job for xgalley :-)

David Carlisle

8:24 AM

come in this morning and my laptop decides it needs to run check disk. Obviously going to be a good day....

@ℝaphink Still up?

egreg

@DavidCarlisle Good excuse to go out and make a walk.

@ℝaphink I have to go to bed and I have class tomorrow, but long story short: I love the EBGaramond font, but it does present several issues

the most alarming of which is the unavailability of the "--" and "---" characters

causing those hyphens to literally render as -- and --- respectively

(see: TOC in gabmedia.org/ArtStudyGuide.pdf )

(code here: github.com/Gnintendo/Art-History-Study-Guide )

8:51 AM

@Gnintendo: it's 10:50AM here, so I got up a few hours ago ;-)

I'm about to go to bed

what do you think about the hyphen issue?

@Gnintendo: I'm using EB Garamond all the time and it's surely got — for sure. Did you \usepackage{xunicode} ?

no

also, I'd recommend using the latest EB Garamond (from git clone) as it's actively improved

do I need to with luatex?

8:52 AM

add \usepackage{xunicode} after \usepackage{fontspec}

let me check

and I need to figure out how to make it rely on the garamond repository and actually use it over the one installed on my system

I just recompiled with \usepackage{xunicode} and it's still not working

ah no

what you're missing in the ligtaures

I'll find the line for you

:<

mmmk

Andrew Stacey

@PeterGrill Re Highlighting code: well, that's what you get when you get dodgy stuff from a dubious back-street coder.

@gnintendo \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}

So in short:

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}

should help :-)

8:55 AM

what do I need the xunicode line for?

The package provides access to latin accents and many other characters
in the Unicode lower plane.

This package is designed to work with TeX engines that directly
process UTF8 input and use Unicode and OpenType fonts.
At the time of writing, XeTeX is the only known engine of this kind.

afaik, LuaTeX is also in this scope, but maybe I'm wrong and it's not necessary at all. I've gotten used to including it since I used XeTeX.

I'm using luatex :<

I'm using luatex, too, now (and wouldn't go back)

@ℝaphink LuaTeX is indeed UTF-8 and can access system fonts

@ℝaphink There are some things XeTeX does handle better

@JosephWright: yes, but the question is whether luatex needs/benefits from xunicode or not.

8:57 AM

@ℝaphink Ah right

I usually try to keep my books compatible with both anyway, so I include xunicode just in case

Well, I mean

@ℝaphink I think that sort of thing is handled 'behind the scenes' by fontspec

Regardless, I feel better off learning what is actually needed and for what reason

I learn more that way (and ask less questions in the future as a result)

@Gnintendo, right

8:58 AM

As far as I can tell, the xunicode package isn't making a difference, but the ligature line did fix the hyphens!

@Gnintendo great.

@ℝaphink The final thing is I'm not sure how I feel about the sans serif bold article titles in scrartcl

Do you think it looks OK, or would you recommend something else?

You can always change the font and use whatever you want

like EB Garamond italics for example

well I mean

what do you think?

You're the one that suggest I try EB Garamond, and I love how that looks

so I'm interested what you think would look good for the section titles

Well it's quite usual to use a serif font for the text and a sans-serif for headings

9:02 AM

do you think there's a better sans serif font to match garamond?

In the books I've typeset using EB Garamond, I've been using EB Garamond italics for headings, though

as I find it hard to find a sans serif that's classy enough to match EB Garamond

If you don't know it yet, I recommend fontsquirrel for finding nice free fonts.

fontsquirrel.com

You can try some things, such as Museo Sans

Calluna Sans is beautiful too, although made to match Calluna

(and not open-source)

keep shooting me suggestions I'll read tomorrow

it's 4 AM and I haven't slept

There's tons of beautiful fonts out there :-) (make sure to choose OTF fonts for features)

:s

ok

good night then