Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes: > Loris Bennett writes: > >> The blocks of the histogram are present in the PDF, but are white, like >> the background of the slides. I can see this by marking them with the >> mouse. >> >> Does anyone know what I need to do to make the full block character >> visible in this situation? > > Do you compile your document with pdfLaTeX?
Yes. > It looks like you're using a Unicode character (FULL BLOCK / #2588 / > descomp: █ #2588) that pdfLaTeX doesn't recognize. You would have to use > LuaTeX or XeTeX as a TeX engine. And load the fontspec package to manage > the ttf or otf fonts. Additionally, you must define a mono font that > contains that character, for example Ubuntu Mono. An example: > > #+TITLE: Some title > #+AUTHOR: author > > #+Beamer_Header:\usepackage{fontspec} > #+Beamer_Header:\setsansfont{Linux Biolinum O} > #+Beamer_Header:\setmonofont{Ubuntu Mono} > #+LATEX_CLASS: beamer > #+LATEX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation] > #+BEAMER_THEME: Boadilla > > #+COLUMNS: %45ITEM %10BEAMER_ENV(Env) %10BEAMER_ACT(Act) %4BEAMER_COL(Col) > > Screenshot: > > https://i.imgur.com/ulYxJgr.png The following seems to be sufficient for me #+LATEX_COMPILER: xelatex #+BEAMER_HEADER: \setmonofont{Fira Code} Fira Code being the font for the terminal in which the histograms are generated. > Bonus: To check which fonts on your system contain a certain character, > you can use the TeX live tool Albatross. E.g.: > > albatross █ --border-style 0 --detailed --show-styles --include-tex-fonts Good to know. Thanks! Loris > Best regards, > > Juan Manuel > > -- > Juan Manuel Macías -- Composición tipográfica, tratamiento de datos, diseño > editorial y ortotipografía > -- This signature is currently under constuction.