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DescriptionI could render Chinese character using the following example: I would like to use Noto Sans font (https://fonts.google.com/noto). How this could be done? I searched TinyTex but could not find suitable solution. |
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You need to look for how to use a Font in LaTeX. It seems Noto is available as a TeX Live fonts Once install it should work ok. Did you try pdf:
fontsize: 12pt
mainfont: "NotoSans"
monofont: "NotoSans"note sure about how it should be passed to latex - maybe |
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I am not familar with Tex Live and TinyTex. Quarto uses TinyTex. Here were the messages when I tried to render QMD files to PDF: |
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Using some fonts with LaTeX requires to understand how LaTeX works unfortunately. What Quarto is doing is only allowing to pass some YAML variable that will end up in a .tex template. However, the correct syntax to use in LaTeX needs to be known so that the document renders. It happens that some fonts package requires some specific settings and Quarto can't know that.
It is possible that the idea I shared for YAML block is not the correct one. Noto fonts may work differently, or at least needs be installed independently using I understand you also cross post on a TeX forum: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/701696/install-and-use-mingliu-and-noto-sans-font-with-tinytex That is a good idea, but please do post back the link here for reference - that is always good to know. Also if you can get the font working using TeX only (without quarto), then I can see how it should be configured as a YAML header. |
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I have updated the I have installed NotoSanSC fonts from https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+SC:
I ran Details... updating tlmgr updating existing packages
kpathsea: Running mktextfm NotoSansSC The command name is C:\Users\yhm2\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\mktextfm kpathsea: Running mktexmf NotoSansSC.mf The command name is C:\Users\yhm2\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\mktexmf finding package for NotoSansSC(-(Bold|Italic|Regular).*)?. compilation failed- package installation error For immediate help type H . l.27 \setmonofont see D:\MyLesson\quarto\unicode_pdf\unicode_pdf.log for more information. I manually updated the generated TeX file Details
% Options for packages loaded elsewhere \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{color} \providecommand{\tightlist}{% \KOMAoption{captions}{tableheading} \title{unicode_pdf} \begin{document} \hypertarget{javascript}{% Javascript 是一种解释性语言。 C 是一种编译语言。 \begin{Shaded} \end{document} I manually ran the xelatex.exe unicode_pdf.texThere are some warnings: Details
Here is the generated PDF file: Could you help to enable Quarto to use truetype fonts (TTF) in the operating system? Thanks! |
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Out of curiosity, I installed the font using homebrew: brew install --cask font-noto-sans-scAnd got absolutely no issue whatsoever using the current development version and latest TinyTex. 
PS: @yoonghm could you put the log inside the code produced by |
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Thanks for sharing this.
Those LaTeX command are set within YAML through options of similar name ( So if the change you made was to pass some option to help the font being found, then you can use the addition YAML field for this. Possibly just adding will be enough. |
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Based on both tex/log and initial input, the following might work (but only in your environment): format:
pdf:
fontsize: 12pt
mainfont: "NotoSansSC"
monofont: "NotoSansSC"
mainfontoptions:
- Path=C:/Users/yhm2/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts/,
- Extension=.ttf,
- UprightFont=*-Regular,
- BoldFont=*-Bold
monofontoptions:
- Path=C:/Users/yhm2/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Fonts/,
- Extension=.ttf,
- UprightFont=*-Regular,
- BoldFont=*-Bold |
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Yes exactly - but probably the path is already known and maybe only the extension is the missing part. You could search about TeX Live and installed fonts to understand if you environment is correctly configured! |
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Based on the suggested solution, I have updated It complained missing fonts and could not render the generated TeX file to PDF file. Details
The command name is C:\Users\yhm2\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\mktexmf updating tlmgr updating existing packages
kpathsea: Running mktextfm NotoSansSC The command name is C:\Users\yhm2\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\mktextfm kpathsea: Running mktexmf NotoSansSC.mf The command name is C:\Users\yhm2\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\bin\windows\mktexmf finding package for NotoSansSC(-(Bold|Italic|Regular).*)?. compilation failed- package installation error For immediate help type H . l.28 \fi Here is the generated TeX file: Details
% Options for packages loaded elsewhere \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \usepackage{color} \providecommand{\tightlist}{% \KOMAoption{captions}{tableheading} \title{unicode_pdf} \begin{document} \hypertarget{javascript}{% Javascript 是一种解释性语言。 C 是一种编译语言。 \begin{Shaded} \end{document} |
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I am able to fix the issue now. Let me update the background and solution here for anyone who want to use additional fonts, such as truetype fonts. Note: The solution here is meant for Microsoft Windows OS. Quarto uses TinyTeX to convert qmd files to tex files, and convert tex files to pdf files via xeletax (comes with TinyTex). In my environment,
<dir>C:/WINDOWS/fonts</dir>
<dir>C:/Users/yhm2/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>C:/Users/yhm2/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>C:/Users/yhm2/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX/texmf-local/fonts/truetype</dir>
The short name used by TinyTeX to map the actual file is the name after the font file name. For example, short name for Noto Sans SC-* is "Noto Sans SC". So I should use "Noto Sans SC" in my qmd file: |
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@cderv there are no issue at least on MacOS regarding TinyTex font detection as I installed the font and directly rendered with Quarto. (#7630 (reply in thread)) I wonder if the font was accessible to Windows in the first place, i.e., was the font available to Word/OpenOffice, etc.? My hypothesis is that the font was not available globally. (@yoonghm would you be able to confirm or not) @yoonghm Glad you sorted out this and thank you for editing your posts to use "details". |
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Yes thank, I have seen your answer. It just seems like Windows behave differently than Mac on this, and it would not be the first time.
I tested this already. Obviously font needs to be installed on the system. A Usually when you that, it works ok out of the box. Though, I believe the issue can be though that the font is installed for a user only (in My different testing shows that I believe this is the key to the problem here: mainfont: "Noto Sans SC"
monofont: "Noto Sans SC"Font can be installed even globally, but if the space is missing (e.g Thanks a lot @yoonghm for sharing your feedback. I should write a blog post about all this. Especially because when using |
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@cderv is correct. As I am not an administrator for the computer that I am using, the fonts that I installed are available in For Windows OS, TexLive is installed onto
For macOS, TeXLive is installed onto
For Linux, TexLive is installed onto
We could run Hence the behaviour of font handling is different for different OSes. I noticed TeXLive uses a lot of custom Perl scripts to handle all kind of things. It would be a very challenging task to update these scripts to use a more modern language such as JavaScript or Python, handling all differences among different OSes and removing hard-coded paths. |
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Thanks a lot for this ! This is something we do in the R package: but don't in Quarto I believe. We probably need to update our post install logic to be thorough |
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Yes, we must update our post-install logic (I didn't realize that we have our own installation procedure implemented in TypeScript until this morning :) I have submitted a PR: #7674 |
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I am able to fix the issue now. Let me update the background and solution here for anyone who want to use additional fonts, such as truetype fonts.
Note: The solution here is meant for Microsoft Windows OS.
Quarto uses TinyTeX to convert qmd files to tex files, and convert tex files to pdf files via xeletax (comes with TinyTex).
In my environment,
%APPDATA%isC:/Users/yhm2/AppData/Roaming.%APPDATA%\TinyTeX\texmf-var\fonts\conf\fonts.conf. For my environment, the file has the following configuration: