Archive for October, 2008

XeLaTeX: change font for headers and footers

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I’ve noticed that headers and footers of the documents, generated by XeLaTeX, use some other font instead of Helvetica. After digging into the LaTeX code, the problem is solved.

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Posted by olpa in publishing, TeX | 2 Comments »

escape a TeX string in Python

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Do you generate [La]TeX files using Python? If yes, do you escape the special characters. Haven’t you forgotten to escape also empty strings?

To avoid reinventing the wheel, I tried to use TeXML libraries. This is the right choice, but one has to use a little trick.

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Posted by olpa in python, TeX, TeXML | 1 Comment »