I would like to give XeLaTeX a try. I've been using pdflatex to process the following:
\listfiles
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{eprintclass}}
\AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{doiclass}}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{Aubert:2007sea,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Evidence for b ---> d gamma Transitions From a Sum of
Exclusive Final States in the Hadronic Final State Mass
Range 1.0-GeV/c**2 < M(X(d)) < 1.8-GeV/c**2}",
year = "2007",
eprint = "0708.1652",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0708.1652;%%"
}
@Article{:2010ip,
author = "del Amo Sanchez, P. and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Dalitz-plot Analysis of B0 --> D0bar pi+ pi-}",
journal = "PoS",
volume = "ICHEP2010",
year = "2010",
pages = "250",
eprint = "1007.4464",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 1007.4464;%%"
}
@Article{delAmoSanchez:2010rq,
author = "del Amo Sanchez, P. and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Evidence for direct CP violation in the measurement of the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle gamma with B-+ --> D(*)
K(*)-+ decays}",
journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
volume = "105",
year = "2010",
pages = "121801",
eprint = "1005.1096",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.121801",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 1005.1096;%%"
}
@Article{:2008ii,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Measurement of $|V_cb|$ and the form-factor slope for
$\bar{B} \to D \ell^- \bar{\nu}_\ell$ decays on the recoil
of fully reconstructed $B$ mesons}",
year = "2008",
eprint = "0807.4978",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.4978;%%"
}
@Article{:2008if,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Measurements of ${\cal B}(\bar{B}^0 \to \Lambda_{c}^{+}
\bar{p})$ and ${\cal B}(B^- \to \Lambda_{c}^{+} \bar{p}
\pi^-)$ and Studies of $\Lambda_{c}^{+}\pi^-$ Resonances}",
journal = "Phys. Rev.",
volume = "D78",
year = "2008",
pages = "112003",
eprint = "0807.4974",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.78.112003",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.4974;%%"
}
@Article{Aubert:2008zh,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Measurement of D0 - anti-D0 mixing from a time-dependent
amplitude analysis of D0 ---> K+ pi- pi0 decays}",
journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
volume = "103",
year = "2009",
pages = "211801",
eprint = "0807.4544",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.211801",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.4544;%%"
}
@Article{Aubert:2008sb,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Measurement of CP Asymmetries and Branching Fractions in
B0 -> ---> pi+ pi-, B0 ---> K+ pi-, B0 ---> pi0 pi0, B0 ---
> K0 pi0 and Isospin Analysis of B ---> pi pi Decays}",
year = "2008",
eprint = "0807.4226",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.4226;%%"
}
@Article{Aubert:2008ri,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Search for B+ ---> mu+ nu mu with inclusive reconstruction
at BaBar}",
year = "2008",
eprint = "0807.4187",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.4187;%%"
}
@Article{Aubert:2008ps,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BABAR",
title = "{Direct CP, Lepton Flavor and Isospin Asymmetries in the
Decays B ---> K(*) l+ l-}",
journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
volume = "102",
year = "2009",
pages = "091803",
eprint = "0807.4119",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.091803",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.4119;%%"
}
@Article{Aubert:2008fq,
author = "Aubert, Bernard and others",
collaboration = "BaBar",
title = "{Searches for B meson decays to phiphi, phirho,
phifzero(980), and fzero(980)fzero(980) final states}",
journal = "Phys. Rev. Lett.",
volume = "101",
year = "2008",
pages = "201801",
eprint = "0807.3935",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ex",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.201801",
SLACcitation = "%%CITATION = 0807.3935;%%"
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
I have been using this message as a reference Frequently loaded packages: Differences between pdfLaTeX and XeLaTeX. Ideally I'm looking for methods to preserve UTF-8 after the document has been processed (see my previous thread: Error message when using biber) . Could anyone give me a skeleton that I could use to fully implement the xelatex packages described in the first link?
Also, I've been getting a lot of "—¿" in my finished pdf. Any idea what could be the culprit?
Best Answer
There's very little that you need to change to transition from
pdflatex
toxelatex
. There are four main things to remember:inputenc
package.fontspec
package to load fonts.Other than that, most things work similarly.
In general, characters that you might have used LaTeX commands to input (e.g. accented characters) can be entered directly into your source.
The
fontspec
package allows you to do automatic substitution for the common TeX shorthands (--
,---
,``...''
, etc) by using the option[Ligatures=TeX]
. Here's a sample document: