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uwdata / living-papers

Authoring tools for scholarly communication. Create interactive web pages or formal research papers from markdown source.
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Feature request: Configurable typesetting engine (like xelatex or lualatex) #56

Open joshuahhh opened 1 year ago

joshuahhh commented 1 year ago

When I try to use Living Papers with the PLATEAU LaTeX class, LaTeX tells me:

! Fatal Package fontspec Error: The fontspec package requires either XeTeX or
(fontspec)                      LuaTeX.
(fontspec)
(fontspec)                      You must change your typesetting engine to,
(fontspec)                      e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex" instead of
(fontspec)                      "latex" or "pdflatex".

Switching from pdflatex to xelatex in the LP code seems to fix things. Would be great to have this as an option, if that doesn't open too many cans containing too many worms.

joshuahhh commented 1 year ago

Random note for posterity: The PLATEAU LaTeX class also relies upon biber as a BibTeX backend, and biber doesn't like citation keys with parentheses in them, making this the hilarious flip side to #23.