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Font selection in LaTeX for XeTeX and LuaTeX

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Forks: 36
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 112

Dominant language: TeX
License: LPPL-1.3c
Last GitHub push: Aug 11, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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112 open issues indexed

traditional latex commands generate warnings and incorrect output with default fonts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

latex3/fontspec#568 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Wishlist: provide a high level interface for `luaotfload.add_fallback` in LuaLaTeX Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#566 · 1 comment · Opened May 9, 2026
Check what happens with Renderer defined twice Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#560 · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Provide a way to override particular settings from .fontspec files or at least ignore the files for particular font instances Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

latex3/fontspec#559 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 7, 2026
Error that specific font file that could NOT be found by "family name" with `fontspec`(with `xelatex`) and `xeCJK`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

latex3/fontspec#557 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
Feature detection not working with Node Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

latex3/fontspec#558 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Maybe: "Deprecate `\c_novalue_tl` in favor of `\NoValue` or its expansion" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

latex3/fontspec#553 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 28, 2025
Font not found when `Extension` is used Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

latex3/fontspec#550 · Opened Sep 16, 2025
Better documentation re. limitations of Word Space Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

latex3/fontspec#538 · Opened Feb 2, 2025
add_fallback for greek/cyrillic Glyphs both regular and italic Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

latex3/fontspec#539 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2025
Size feature + variable fonts = unexpected output Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

latex3/fontspec#534 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2024
Font name stored in a string variable is not correctly parsed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

latex3/fontspec#532 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 25, 2024
MatchLowercaseByChar Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#531 · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Scale with FreeMono produces counter-intuitive effect with XeLaTeX, not so with LuaLaTeX Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#529 · Opened Aug 25, 2024
Observed durations of `\setmainfont` et al. feel big Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#528 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Script=Emoji option Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#526 · Opened Jul 20, 2024
fontspec 2.9e `script-not-exist` and `language-not-exist` messages not updated Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

latex3/fontspec#520 · Opened May 13, 2024
every page reference to commands in fontspec-code is undefined Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

latex3/fontspec#496 · Opened Dec 20, 2023
LuaLaTeX: Trying to set the Renderer to OpenType with `\defaultfontfeatures` gives inconsistent results Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#491 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 31, 2023
A bug in the documentation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 10/100

latex3/fontspec#483 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2023
Small Capitals and SizeFeatures Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#470 · Opened Jun 13, 2022
Set mode for fonts used in math Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#460 · Opened Apr 20, 2022
`SmallCapsFeatures` parsing grows exponentially when interacting with `SizeFeatures` and friends Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#454 · Opened Dec 12, 2021
No small caps with `\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#449 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2021
Linux xelatex and type1 font Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

latex3/fontspec#448 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2021
AutoFakeSlant does not work when specifying BoldFont Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#443 · Opened May 6, 2021
Small caps in Hoefler Text not working since TexLive 2019 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#441 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2021
"Jost*" font (with asterisk in font name), error: '"JostJost*" cannot be found' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

latex3/fontspec#437 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 23, 2020
`\newfontfamily` and `\newfontface` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#435 · Opened Dec 16, 2020
spurious space in color feature? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

latex3/fontspec#433 · Opened Oct 21, 2020
Cannot use Extension with .ttc files and FontIndex Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#431 · Opened Sep 3, 2020
Renderer=HarfBuzz is XeTeX. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#430 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2020
defaultfontfeatures not working properly. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#429 · Opened Aug 2, 2020
Wishlist: support virtual fonts (at least in luatex) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

latex3/fontspec#428 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2020
Unexpected error with no-glyph and XeTeX Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

latex3/fontspec#423 · Opened Jun 9, 2020
Renderer=AAT specifies non-existent shaper Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#422 · Opened Jun 5, 2020
luatex + harfbuzz and the zero width joiner U+200D Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

latex3/fontspec#418 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 29, 2020
\addfontfeature relaxes font faces when NFSSfamily was used Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

latex3/fontspec#417 · Opened Feb 29, 2020
huge memory consumption with mode=harf and the Noto CJK fonts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

latex3/fontspec#414 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2020
actually looking up fonts on the filesystem Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#413 · 11 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2020
reference list for .fontspec files? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#406 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2020
look into more "TF" user commands for font features Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

latex3/fontspec#405 · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 19, 2020
Investigate patching XeTeX to allow filename lookup Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

latex3/fontspec#398 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2020
interface for the colr font feature? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

latex3/fontspec#395 · Opened Dec 12, 2019
XeTeX: can not use fontname and filename in one command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

latex3/fontspec#392 · Opened Nov 25, 2019
\addfontfeature should cache fonts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#391 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2019
Feature request for combined fonts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

latex3/fontspec#390 · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 16, 2019
Inconsistent letterforms for \mathrm and friends under LuaTeX Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#388 · Opened Oct 27, 2019
Kernings lost in \mathrm and friends Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#387 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2019
FontIndex indirectly by PostScript name Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

latex3/fontspec#380 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2019

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