[XeTeX] Strangeness with Minion Pro Opticals Small Caps

[Peter Heslin]

Ralf Stubner
<ralf.stubner at physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> $ otfinfo -v MinionPro-*.otf
> MinionPro-BoldIt.otf:Version 2.015;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.7.9032
> MinionPro-Bold.otf:Version 2.015;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.7.9032
> MinionPro-It.otf:Version 2.015;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.7.9032
> MinionPro-Regular.otf:Version 2.015;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.7.9032
>
> as well as
>
> $ otfinfo -v MinionPro-*.otf
> MinionPro-BoldIt.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
> MinionPro-Bold.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
> MinionPro-It.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
> MinionPro-Regular.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
>
> The former came with my AR 7.0.8 installation. The latter came with some
> previous version. None of them shows such problems here, though. Would
> be interesting to know which version Peter got from AR.

The AR font that gave me the bad output looks to be the same as your
previous version:

MinionPro-BoldIt.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
MinionPro-Bold.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
MinionPro-It.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565
MinionPro-Regular.otf:Version 2.012;PS 002.000;Core 1.0.38;makeotf.lib1.6.6565

I'm puzzled that these give me bad results with small caps, while the
same fonts work for Ralf.

Here are the versions that come with Type Classics for Learning, which
worked for me:

Non-optical:

MinionPro-BoldIt.otf:OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1
MinionPro-Bold.otf:OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1
MinionPro-It.otf:OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1
MinionPro-Regular.otf:OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1
MinionPro-SemiboldIt.otf:OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1
MinionPro-Semibold.otf:OTF 1.011;PS 001.000;Core 1.0.27;makeotf.lib1.3.1

The opticals have the same version numbers.

-- 
Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)