Sign up or log in to customize your list. Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top I'm looking for some good books on XeTeX to have them as references whenever I want to look up something or learn something new. Level doesn't really matter, either novice or advanced would do but I'd really like the book(s) to be broad in content - like some of the LaTeX books that I've read: A Guide to LaTeX by H. Kopka and P. Daly The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε by T. Oetiker Many thanks for any recommendations, XeTeX is in opposite to ConTeXt just another compiler engine (like PDFTeX) and not a separate typesetting system. So it can't do any harm to read LaTeX documentation. A kind of XeTeX documentation is given with the manuals of some specific packages. I'm sure you will find much more useful information on the XeTeX Project Homepage. Many books about LaTeX in general are mentioned here.
Documentation about XeTeX can be found here. If you're interested in XeLaTex and read French, you may find this book useful: Maïeul Rouquette, (Xe)LaTeX appliqué aux sciences humaines, 2012. The code is open source. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged xetex books or ask your own question. Tamil book PDF generation using XeTeX. The sources can be written using Emacs Org mode. [X] Render Tamil text [X] Odd page title [X] Even page title [X] Front page title, author [X] Margins (Set for two-side printing) [X] Table of Contents [X] ஸ்ரீ rendition in PDF [X] English and Tamil text [X] Letter height, width [X] Latex template and layout [X] – renders as long dash [X] 5x7 or 9x7 book size (chosen 7.5” by 9.5”)
[X] Verse attrib renewcommand [X] Decorations to separate sections to .tex file [8/8] [X] Dynamically determine book title, chapter to config.sty Fix in draft (set \booktitle) [X] - புவலர் (8 அகலம்?) [X] Convert quote block to verse (default latex export) [X] TEST org-mode italics \emph and \textit are the same. [X] TEST ToC names specify \tamilfont{} [X] TEST Footnotes \footnote. Use [fn:1], but, enclose text within \englishfont{} or \tamilfont{}. [X] Run remove-orgmode-latex-labels on generated .tex file [X] Convert orgmode top-level * to chapter (export to section and run regexp) [X] Convert \begin{verse} to \emph{\begin{verse} and The sources are released under the MIT license. author at shakthimaan dot com Our gallery is the easiest way to put your LaTeX templates, examples and articles online. You can publish any Overleaf project to the gallery with a couple of clicks! Content from our Community
The LaTeX templates, examples and articles in the Overleaf gallery all come from our amazing community of LaTeX experts. Follow us for More Great new content is added all the time. Follow us on twitter for the highlights! XeTeX ( ZEE-tekh[1] or ; see also Pronouncing and writing "TeX") is a TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies such as OpenType, Graphite and Apple Advanced Typography (AAT). It was originally written by Jonathan Kew and is distributed under the X11 free software license. Initially developed for Mac OS X only, it is now available for all major platforms. It natively supports Unicode and the input file is assumed to be in UTF-8 encoding by default. XeTeX can use any fonts installed in the operating system without configuring TeX font metrics, and can make direct use of advanced typographic features of OpenType, AAT and Graphite technologies such as alternative glyphs and swashes, optional or historic ligatures, and variable font weights.
Support for OpenType local typographic conventions (locl tag) is also present. XeTeX even allows raw OpenType feature tags to be passed to the font. Microtypography is also supported. XeTeX also supports typesetting mathematics using Unicode fonts that contain special mathematical features, such as Cambria Math or Asana Math as an alternative to the traditional mathematical typesetting based on TeX font metrics. Rendering of ligatures in XeTeX using an OpenType font (Hoefler Text). XeTeX processes input in two stages. In the first stage XeTeX outputs an extended DVI (xdv) file, which is then converted to PDF by a driver. In the default operating mode the xdv output is piped directly to the driver without producing any user-visible intermediate files. It is possible to run just the first stage of XeTeX and save the xdv, although as of July 2008 there are no viewers capable of displaying the intermediate format. Two backend drivers are available to generate PDF from an xdv file:
Starting from version 0.997, the default driver is xdvipdfmx on all platforms. As of version 0.9999, xdv2pdf is no longer supported and its development has been discontinued. XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt macro packages. Its LaTeX counterpart is invoked as xelatex. It is usually used with the fontspec package, which provides a configurable interface for font selection, and allows complex font choices to be named and later reused. XeTeX is bundled with TeX Live, MacTeX, and MiKTeX (see the History below for dates and versions). The following is an example of XeLaTeX source and rendered output. The typeface used is OFL-licensed font Linux Libertine. The text is to be processed by the command xelatex. XeTeX also supports right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic. One way of rendering Arabic in XeTeX is to use the package arabxetex. In order to do so, the Arabic is placed inside the following: The following code illustrates this: In bibliographic files (see below the BibTeX example) you can use unicode entities and call them with their native scripting, for example \cite{Ekstrøm}, instead of a transliterated ASCII form like \cite{Ekstrom} which is mandatory using the pdfTeX engine.