XeLaTeX vs. LuaLaTeX 15
luatex xetex
samcarter samcarter
9 For any new document use LuaLaTeX, for old documents consider migrating them to LuaLaTeX.
Skillmon
4 At the time of writing this answer, XeLaTeX is very far from LuaLaTeX in multilingual typesetting. I provide the following example which can be run with both XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. The objective is to typeset a multilingual document involving four languages. 1) English (main) 2) Malayalam 3) Marathi 4) Hindi. We use fonts already distributed with TeX Live. Tested with fully updated TeX Live 2024 (full installation). Marathi and Hindi share the same scripts, but differ in some typographic conventions. Especially with respect to two characters `ल` and `श`.
निरंजन
How to `l3build install` font-files? 2
निरंजन निरंजन
Newer MySQL/mariadb versions 1 2
feature-request
ysth ysth
Regarding internal and user-side macros 1
निरंजन निरंजन
7 In LaTeX2e, the line between macros which are strictly internal, those that are programmatic interfaces and those that are design/document commands is not firmly drawn. This arose in part as the number of control sequences available was very limited when LaTeX2e was developed: as such, something like providing both `\IfPackageAtLeastTF` and `\@ifpackagelater` was simply not feasible: as such, the 'internal' macro `\@ifpackagelater` was _the_ way to make this test for many years.
Joseph Wright
How to create packages with subdirectories with and without l3build? 32
निरंजन निरंजन
7 The DocStrip approach with `\usedir` requires quite a bit of 'local' setup, in particular
Joseph Wright
Hierarchy query
Anonymous 13665 Anonymous 13665
A bug with Unicode character in toc 1
Anonymous 8536 Anonymous 8536
3 I think, you only turn on the line `\usepackage[utf8]{vietnam}`
JohnPaul
Playing with l3seq module, \seq_clear:N fails mysteriously, why? 28
निरंजन निरंजन
How can I align tableofcontents like this?
Anonymous 8536 Anonymous 8536
1 You can use `\setlength{\cftsubsecindent}{...}` to change the indentation for subsection entries (the exact value in the example below might need fine-tuning, I just picked it by eye):
samcarter
How can I set a space bigger at \section and \subsection in tableofcontent 5
JohnPaul JohnPaul
4 1. you can use `\setlength{\cftsecnumwidth}{...}` and `\setlength{\cftsubsecnumwidth}{...}` to set the space for the section and subsection numbers in the toc
samcarter

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